Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson denies existence of wet markets

From the United States to Australia, there are renewed calls for the closure of the Chinese wet markets. These markets have a history of being incubators of human diseases. World Health Organisation (WHO), the body tasked with controlling human diseases, says they are a source of livelihood.

WHO Director-General thinks these markets should be allowed to reopen as they are an important source of affordable food and livelihood for millions of people all over the world.

Wet markets in Yunnan province were the source of the SARS virus back in 2003, while coronavirus originated in the Wuhan wet markets.

Meanwhile, the Chinese regime won't accept these markets as the source of this virus. In fact, they have gone a step further.

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China now says that these markets never existed. According to Geng Shuang, another 'outspoken' foreign ministry spokesperson in China said that there is no such thing as a 'wet market'.

"First of all, I want to point out that there is no such thing as a "wildlife wet market" in China. In fact, there is no such thing as a "wet market" in China. Farmers 'markets and live poultry and seafood markets are more common. These markets sell fresh meat, fish, vegetables, seafood and other agricultural and sideline products, and there are a few markets that sell live poultry," he said.

We're being told that wet markets are like any other markets that sell fresh produce, that the term 'wet' refers to the fact that 'perishables' are being sold at these markets, not necessarily wildlife.

Wet markets have existed for several years in South Asia, but not all of them sell exotic meat. However, in China, they do.

China has done little to ensure that there is no wildlife trade. The Chinese agricultural ministry passed a draft which only exempted dogs from human consumption. Most wildlife was approved as 'farm-raised' species - the wildlife traders consider them species approved for slaughter.

China has deliberately left these loop-holes to keep business at these wet-markets going.