Wet Market is a marketplace where you can buy fresh meat, eggs and various other animal produce. Though all the wet markets don\’t sell live animals, generally they deal with animal meat. This present ongoing pandemic probably started from the wet market of Wuhan, the People\’s Republic of China. Across the globe, many countries closed down their wet markets to stop the coronavirus to spread.
Wet markets were banned in China in 2003 when the SARS virus started to spread in 2002. Other viruses link, Nipah, Ebola, H1N1 (swine flu) all came from wet markets. In India, wet markets of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand and some parts of Uttar Pradesh sale turtle meat openly. These wet markets sell wild meat illegally derived from lizards, quails, turtles and various other wild animals. That\’s why prominent leaders across the world, United Nations and health experts are requesting respective governments to put a permanent ban on the wet markets of all the countries.
In January 2020, many wet markets of the Asian countries were closed for some time, and they started their business again very recently. Recently, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has allowed slaughtering only goats, sheep, bovine, fish and poultry.
There\’s no bravery in eating animal meat. But for the past one entire century, we have noted many epidemics and probably two pandemics, which generated from animals. We cut them, eat them, give pain also to them, so they are taking revenge from us by transferring harmful viruses. Plants also have harmful viruses, but they are not so harmful that people would get killed. Plant virus mostly gets killed when we cook them, or else human immunity can easily fight with the plant viruses. But animal viruses are not like this.