>Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser at Compassion in World Farming This article is a press release for an animal rights NGO. >animals are susceptible to di

>Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser at Compassion in World Farming This article is a press release for an animal rights NGO. >animals are susceptible to disease because the stress [...] policymakers “must resist arguments that wet markets should be replaced Chinese wet markets keep producing these coronaviruses because they combine live wild animals from all over the world in extremely unsanitary conditions. Viruses recombine and evolve in new hosts and produce things that never would have existed in nature. Factory farms do not have this problem. Wet markets are specialty shops for rich Asians wanting exotic food. They should be banned, and the Chinese Government appears to be cracking down on it. >Food should be regarded as a public good, not as a tradeable commodity This sounds like actual communism.