The Chinese government has announced its plan to phase out the live-poultry trade out of concerns over public food safety in response to COVID-19 pandemic.
Beijing's market today vowed to restrict the killing and trading of live farm animals, such as chicken and ducks, in the country's ubiquitous wet markets.An official stated the authority would phase out the conventional trade by encouraging cities to prepare centralised manufacturing traces every time attainable.
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation promised to progressively halt the killing and buying and selling of stay cattle, comparable to chickens and geese, in tens of 1000’s of wet markets
While modern supermarkets have popped up in virtually every corner of Chinese cities, wet markets owe their continuous popularity to the fact that Chinese people prefer freshly butchered meat to frozen meat, believing that it could add more flavour to the dish.
The criticism against wet markets began when experts discovered that the novel coronavirus might have jumped onto humans from wild animals sold as food at the now-shut Huanan market in Wuhan.
source: weibo
