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authors: Chuvileva, Yulia E.; Rissing, Andrea; King, Hilary B.
title: From wet markets to Wal‐Marts: tracing alimentary xenophobia in the time of COVID‐19
date: 2020-06-01
journal: Soc Anthropol
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12840
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doc_id: 882951
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origins of COVID-19 (Wallace et al. 2020) . Meanwhile, the industrial food system has shaped the novel coronavirus' uneven spread (Herrick 2020) . COVID-19's death toll is higher among people with chronic conditions, like diabetes and hypertension. These conditions disproportionately affect marginalised groups through intersecting effects of the production, distribution and consumption of industrial food (Mendenhall 2012; Gálvez 2018; Herrick 2020) . Perceiving this slow violence (Nixon 2013 ) challenges the premise that supermarkets are safer than traditional markets.

Policy prescriptions arising out of alimentary xenophobia, such as calls to eliminate wet markets, distract from real solutions. Public investment in food sovereignty and agro-ecological production, sanitation and enforceable health regulations, and reducing global demand for meat, can help create shorter, safer food-supply chains. These prescriptions, however, do not help more Wal-Marts open in Wuhan. 

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