TY - JOUR

T1 - COVID-19, wet markets, and planetary health

AU - Petrikova, Ivica

AU - Cole, Jennifer

AU - Farlow, Andrew

PY - 2020/6/1

Y1 - 2020/6/1

N2 - Wet markets provide an important source of protein to populations in low-income regions and the food systems in which such markets are embedded. They are more environmentally sustainable than industrial food systems. from the perspective of planetary health, which draws a connection between the health of humans and their environment, engaging in small-scale animal husbandry—of which live-animal markets often form a part—while reducing global meat consumption and more rigorously enforcing a ban on illegal wildlife trade would be beneficial than phasing out wet markets entirely.

AB - Wet markets provide an important source of protein to populations in low-income regions and the food systems in which such markets are embedded. They are more environmentally sustainable than industrial food systems. from the perspective of planetary health, which draws a connection between the health of humans and their environment, engaging in small-scale animal husbandry—of which live-animal markets often form a part—while reducing global meat consumption and more rigorously enforcing a ban on illegal wildlife trade would be beneficial than phasing out wet markets entirely.

KW - COVID19

KW - Climate change

KW - Poultry

KW - Infectious disease

KW - Planetary health

U2 - 10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30122-4

DO - 10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30122-4

M3 - Article

VL - 4

SP - E213-E214

JO - The Lancet Planetary Health

JF - The Lancet Planetary Health

IS - 6

ER -