Despite the huge health risks they create, these practices are deeply embedded in rural Chinese life. The wild animals that mix with more common livestock — poultry, swine, and seafood — form a deadly combination.

Markets may result in a very wide distribution of income, such that some individuals may receive no income at all. Incomes are earned in a market when individuals sell or hire out their factor of production to others.

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