[LatteLazy]

As long as china and other countries refuse to operate sanitary food chains, the risk they represent will be 1000s of times higher than a high security lab. That is why so many zoonotic diseases come from such places and so few from the rest of the world.

Don't "strain out a fly and swallow a camel"...

[BryantD]

You might find it interesting to read up on the ways US agribusiness is trying to avoid food safety regulations!

https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/6547/dang...

Also I went to a shocking wet market the other weekend in Seattle. Raw fish on display, raw meat galore in coolers, produce, etc.

[scheme271]

Wet markets have a pretty good reason for existing. If you don't have a reliable cold chain and aren't sure about refrigeration, then keeping animals alive as long as possible and then butchering them just before you need to use the meat keeps the chances of food poisoning low.

[geysersam]

That, or because a fifth of the worlds population live there.