[GA - Discarded] Wet Market Safety Act

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Wet Market Safety Act
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Consumer Protection
Proposed by: Gremenia | Onsite Topic​
RECOGNIZES that wet markets across the globe may partake in the trade of live animals and wild and exotic animals, exposing the world population to dangerous infectious disease.

WORRIES that the trade of live animals and wild and exotic animals in wet markets can spark new global pandemics.

THE WORLD ASSEMBLY:

1. DEFINES:
  • a. "wet market" as a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and other perishable goods as distinguished from "dry markets" that sell durable goods such as fabrics and electronics.
    b. "wild and exotic animals" as products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions.
    c. "live animals" as all living animals including hatching eggs.
    d. "zoonotic diseases (zoonosis)" as an infectious disease caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, prions, etc) that has jumped from non-human animals (usually vertebrates) to humans.
    e. "game" as animals like (1) small birds, such as the thrush and quail; (2) game proper, a category that can be subdivided into winged game, such as the goose, duck, woodcock, grouse or partridge, and pheasant; and ground game, such as the squirrel, hare, and rabbit; (3) big game, predominantly venison, including roebuck, deer, elk, moose, and caribou but also including other large animals such as bear and wild boar.
2. ACKNOWLEDGES:
  • a. the existence of wet markets, a majority of which do not trade in live animals and wild or exotic animals and that those markets which do trade in live animals and wild and exotic animals can be linked to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.
    b. illegal wildlife trade is widespread and constitutes one of the major illegal economic activities, comparable to the traffic of drugs and weapons affecting conservation and leading to the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases in humans, including emergent viruses.
3. PERMITS:
  • a. the sale of fish products not deemed endangered or dangerous for human consumption.
    b. The sale of vegetables, fruits, or plants not deemed endangered or dangerous for human consumption.
    c. The sale of domesticated slaughtered animals deemed safe for human consumption.
    d. the sale of slaughtered game, deemed safe for human consumption and not endangered.
4. PROHIBITS:
  • a. the trade of wild and exotic animals, alive or deceased, and any parts of those animals including skins, bones, and meat and other products in wet markets.
    b. the trade of live animals in wet markets.
5. MANDATES:
  • a. wet markets do not partake in the trade or sale of live animals and wild and exotic animals, and all products sold are deemed safe for human consumption and are not known to cause zoonotic diseases.
    b. wet markets use modern and proper sanitation and food storage methods to minimize the risk of disease.
    c. that member nations shall each establish national standards jointly with the World Assembly Commission on which animals and products are deemed safe for sale and human consumption.
6. ENSURES the health and safety of consumers shall not be compromised at wet markets due to exposure to live animals and wild and exotic animals or due to improper sanitation and food storage.

7. OBLIGES member nations to provide oversight of wet markets and the sale of any products within these markets beyond that exercised by the direct management of these markets.
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Voting Instructions:
  • Vote For if you want the Delegate to vote For the resolution.
  • Vote Against if you want the Delegate to vote Against the resolution.
  • Vote Abstain if you want the Delegate to abstain from voting on this resolution.
  • Vote Present if you are personally abstaining from this vote.

Detailed opinions with your vote are appreciated and encouraged!
 
Against. Stop using Covid to try to pass stupid legislation that has to do with Covid.
 
If we were to read this line by line, you would realise how much problems this proposal has.

Clause 1b:
"wild and exotic animals" as products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions.
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Potted plants are apparently wild and exotic" because they are products derived from plants "usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions". Clearly a grammatical issue at play here.

Clause 1e:
"game" as animals like (1) small birds, such as the thrush and quail; (2) game proper, a category that can be subdivided into winged game, such as the goose, duck, woodcock, grouse or partridge, and pheasant; and ground game, such as the squirrel, hare, and rabbit; (3) big game, predominantly venison, including roebuck, deer, elk, moose, and caribou but also including other large animals such as bear and wild boar.
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Trying to use X in the definition of X. Most basic mistake, and yet it shows up.

Clause 2a:
the existence of wet markets, a majority of which do not trade in live animals and wild or exotic animals and that those markets which do trade in live animals and wild and exotic animals can be linked to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.
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You... are kidding. There are many markets who pride themselves in selling live animals to preserve their freshness. Not to forget that some restaurants buy live seafood, rear them in tanks in their restaurant, and then kill them on the spot to ensure that the meat is fresh. Also, note the fallacy in assuming that markets that "those markets which do trade in live animals and wild and exotic animals can be linked to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases".

Clause 3:
3. PERMITS:
a. the sale of fish products not deemed endangered or dangerous for human consumption.
b. The sale of vegetables, fruits, or plants not deemed endangered or dangerous for human consumption.
c. The sale of domesticated slaughtered animals deemed safe for human consumption.
d. the sale of slaughtered game, deemed safe for human consumption and not endangered.
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Notice how this clause is written in an inconsistent manner. Ignoring the inconsistency, it is difficult to define what is safe and what is dangerous for human consumption. Do you consider eating insects dangerous? What about snakes? Dogs? It is particularly subjective that is very up to interpretation.

Clause 4:
4. PROHIBITS:
a. the trade of wild and exotic animals, alive or deceased, and any parts of those animals including skins, bones, and meat and other products in wet markets.
b. the trade of live animals in wet markets.
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Apart from the problem with "wild and exotic animals" as stated above, we can list example of products which are completely safe for eating but cannot be sold: Edible bird's nest (Safe for eating but you can argue that the swiftlets used are not domesticated per se); vegetables; fish (since some of them are grown in the oceans, which you can argue are non-domesticated), etc.

Ultimately, a proposal that was based of the current COVID-19 situation and is inherently racist should not be considered at all. Against.
 
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