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The term "wet market" just means a market that sells non-dry goods, like meat or vegetables. Most farmers markets are wet markets. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whbyuy2nHBg for an example.

Perhaps you mean campaigning against eating exotic animals?

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I think the issue would be less the "exotic" and more the wild animals sold in unhygienic conditions, which at least was the picture some media painted when describing Chinese wet markets.

Hygiene isn't the issue. Butchering a wild animal and selling the meat for human consumption is inherently dangerous (at the societal scale) - even if you adhere to strict hygiene standards.

Live animal markets have been a historically common origin for new diseases - cities were an absolute disaster disease-mortality wise until the hygiene initiatives started cleaning them up.

Extended, concentrated exposure to animals has always been a breeding ground for new plagues.

I think you are unnecessarily conflating hygiene with wild animal contact.

Even a perfectly hygienic butcher shop and wet market can transmit a new disease. Keeping it clean is good to reduce the transmission of common illnesses - but the genesis of a new disease can easily be passed in a clean market.

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