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Shutting down wildlife farms and consumption was actually one of the first actions taken, this was widely reported last year: https://www.npr.org/sections/goat

Shutting down wildlife farms and consumption was actually one of the first actions taken, this was widely reported last year: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/15/977527808/who-points-to-wildlife-farms-in-southwest-china-as-likely-source-of-pandemic https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/15/9775278... https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/28/883900042/pandemic-causes-china-to-ban-breeding-of-bamboo-rats-and-other-wild-animals https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/28/8839000... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/world/asia/china-coronavirus-wildlife-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/world/asia/china-coronavi... etc.

dillondoyle 6y ago
And mink farms were also culled in Denmark. Though I can't find any news about whether or not they resumed farming.
lamontcg 6y ago
Those wildlife farms were linked to the Huanan Seafood Market which we pretty much at this point know were not the source. That was not ground zero. It is more likely that larger and more economically important fur farming or agriculturally significant animals were responsible. The articles you link to all talk about shutting down exotics (which confines the economic and political damage for China).