Shenzhen bans the eating of dogs and cats

[Catherine]

The city of Shenzhen has become the first city in China to fully ban the eating of cats and dogs. As of May I, 2020 it will be illegal to eat animals raised as pets. Shenzhen will also ban the eating of protected wildlife or any form of wildlife taken from the wild and farmed for consumption.
This is part of an overall response to the Covid 19 global pandemic. The outbreak is thought to have started in a wildlife market. The only way to prevent further outbreaks is to stop the wildlife markets. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/shenzhen-be...-1.4879626

This is a pretty drastic way to end the eating of cats and dogs. Before this pandemic is over it will have cost humans a lot. Our economies and lives are disrupted. Many are dead. It will take years to get things back to normal. 
If the new normal involves a ban on wildlife markets and the eating of cats and dogs then at least something good will have come from all this.