China's fresh meat lovers lament death of live poultry markets

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JIANGXI, CHINA (BLOOMBERG) - Chen Yu used to walk a short distance to a nearby market to get fresh poultry.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Now, to stew a pot of chicken soup or cook a whole duck for family gatherings, she has to take two buses downtown to buy the meat.

Live animal sales are still taking place in markets with containment rooms in some cities, but they will also eventually stop operating. In 2017, officials in some affected areas ordered the markets to shut, and culled more than one million infected or susceptible fowl. In Mrs Chen's city, however, changes slowly started taking place in the second half of 2019 and now her neighbourhood market has stopped selling them.

Despite risks related to live animal slaughter, many meat consumers don't seem to worry about live birds.

 

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