{"id":806362,"date":"2020-04-14T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=983463"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:46:04","slug":"paul-mccartney-calls-for-an-end-to-chinas-wet-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/paul-mccartney-calls-for-an-end-to-chinas-wet-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney Calls for an End to China\u2019s \u2018Wet Markets\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul McCartney<\/a> called on China to better regulate its so-called \u201cwet markets\u201d \u2014 one of which could have been the source of the COVID-19<\/a> outbreak \u2014 during an interview with Howard Stern Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the earliest cases of the coronavirus<\/a> was found in a delivery person who worked at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China. Markets like these often feature an array of live and pre-slaughtered animals for sale, and the nickname, \u201cwet markets,\u201d comes from the water used to wash away the mixture of animal blood, guts and other bodily fluids that inevitably spill about. This makes such spaces ripe for disease because, as Christian Walzer, executive health director of the Wildlife Conservation Society, recently told Rolling Stone<\/i><\/a>, \u201cEach animal is a package of pathogens.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCartney, a long-time vegetarian and animal rights advocate, said he hoped the COVID-19 outbreak would force China\u2019s hand on wet markets, saying, \u201cI really hope that this will mean the Chinese government says, \u2018OK guys, we have really got to get super hygienic around here.’\u201d He added: \u201cThey might as well be letting off atomic bombs because it\u2019s affecting the whole world. Whoever is responsible for this is at war with the world and itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In speaking out against the wet markets, however, McCartney also peddled the problematic conspiracy theory<\/a> that the coronavirus originated with Chinese people eating bats, implying that the practice is commonplace. \u201cLet\u2019s face it, it is a little bit medieval eating bats,\u201d McCartney told Stern, adding, \u201cThey don\u2019t need all the people dying. And what\u2019s it for? All these medieval practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the coronavirus outbreak took hold beyond China, the \u201cbat-eating theory\u201d spread quickly through tabloids, conservative blogs and social media despite no hard evidence. (Actual scientific studies have suggested the virus may have originated with snakes<\/a> or a scaly anteater known as a pangolin<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And while COVID-19 may have originated with an animal before spreading to humans, many have spoken out against the offensive nature of pinning it specifically on a foreign country\u2019s eating habits. \u201cIt\u2019s not simply a matter of the consumption of exotic animals per se,\u201d Adam Kamradt-Scott, an associate professor specializing in global health security at the University of Sydney, told Time<\/i><\/a>. \u201cSo we need to be mindful of picking on or condemning cultural practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Paul McCartney called on China to better regulate its so-called \u201cwet markets\u201d \u2014 one of which could have been the source of the COVID-19 outbreak \u2014 during an interview with Howard Stern Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. One of the earliest cases of the coronavirus was found in a delivery person who worked at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 04:24:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}