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What kind of farmer’s markets have you been to with live animals in poor health being slaughtered in place?
by foobiekr 5y ago
What kind of farmer’s markets have you been to with live animals in poor health being slaughtered in place?
- croes 5y agoYour comment confirms that it is a problematic term. I quote from the Oxford Dictionary: "wet market n. South-East Asian a market for the sale of fresh meat, fish, and produce." There is no mention of animals in poor condition and on-the-spot slaughtering. That's your prejeduce.
- foobiekr 5y agoPhotos of the Wuhan market match my description.
- 40four 5y agoThis is exactly my point. What exactly makes you think this is the case? How do you know there are animals in 'poor health' there? Maybe the term itself isn't the problem, but the way it was used in American media, especially during the Trump administration. The term, and it's connotations were used in a way to disparage Chinese people. It has been used to suggest the reason we have this pandemic is because these 'inferior' people are eating bats and weird animals in their 'dirty' wet markets.