The industry has been promoting these wildlife animals as tonic products. As body-building, sex-enhancing, and of course, disease-fighting. None of those claims, however, proved to be factual. However, these products still became popular with a substantial portion of China's Population. The majority of the people in China do not eat wildlife animals. Those people who consumed these wild animals are rich and powerful. A small minority. It's this minority that the Chinese government chose to favor over the safety of the rest of its 1.4billion population. This parochial commercial interest of a small number of wildlife eaters is hijacking China's national interest. Soon after the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government shut down thousands of wet markets and temporarily banned wildlife trade again. Organizations around the world have been urging China to make the ban permanent. Chinese social media, in particular, has been flooded with petitions to ban it for good this time. In response, China is reportedly amending the Wildlife Protection law that encouraged wildlife farming decades ago. But unless these actions lead to a permanent ban on wildlife farming, outbreaks like this are bound to happen again