Worries About What You Use From China (This is a column I wrote early 2020 just as the pandemic was breaking out. Information is now more important than ever.) February 1 2020 Let me be entirely transparent here. I love Chinese food and I especially love Chinese buffets at local restaurants. But would I eat food from a Chinese street market or one that is identifed as a “wet” market? Absolutely not, although there is no danger of my ever being close to such places. Wet markets, in case that’s a new term to you as it was to me, are places that sell dead and live animals out in the open to be used for food and medicine. This includes poultry, fish, reptiles, and pigs (and sometimes other items that our palates would deem to be too gross for human consumption). By now, you’ve all heard the rumors about the coronavirus being caused by the Chinese habit of eating bats and other disgusting creatures. The video which has gone viral on Facebook has been debunked as not even taking p