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Related: About this forumThese "Wet markets" for exotic animals are the cause of Covid 19. And they are
all over Asia! Animals are smuggled in just like drugs and then sold on these markets; slaughtered right there. I can't believe what people are eating!
Warning: this is troubling because they go undercover into some markets.
This is the animal that the man thinks the coronavirus started with. The Pengolin or scaly anteater.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/group/pangolins/
MFM008
(19,776 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)have started hideous nightmares for everyone else in the world.
When are sickos who hunt and/or eat endangered species going to be seen as the danger they are and punished accordingly? Why, when dealing with them, do people only give them a slap on the wrist, IF ANYTHING?
Same with these assholes who are getting together for church and saying they will be ok because God. They are spreading it because they are stupid, stubborn, self-serving, and selfish.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Even though the animals are rescued...1990 (Brando and Broderick)
Phoenix61
(16,950 posts)Wet markets are like our farmers markets. Wildlife markets were recently banned.
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)that these markets have been banned but not in every country and the one they go to is secret. They are wearing hidden cameras to record everything.
Granny M
(1,395 posts)Footage here from markets in Thailand. Organised crime bringing animals from Africa and everywhere. Torture chambers for the animals and breeding grounds for pandemics.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)they don't already know all about these sources!
littlemissmartypants
(22,417 posts)Pangolin sales plunge in Gabon over coronavirus fears
07:05 17/03/2020
https://m.news24.com/Africa/News/pangolin-sales-plunge-in-gabon-over-coronavirus-fears-20200316
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Several at a Libreville market claim that Chinese buyers used to come to snatch up their pangolin supplies, but those shoppers have now disappeared.
"We've been eating pangolin for years - don't bring the disease here," said Melanie, a vegetable seller at the market acting as a spokesperson for the bushmeat sellers, who prefer to stay silent.
Scale prices 'like ivory'
The animal's meat is a delicacy in Gabon, but Asian customers are also interested in the scales that cover the pangolin and make its tail look like an artichoke.
Used in Chinese medicine, the scales are sold at a steep price to illegal dealers in China, says Luc Mathot, director of the NGO Conservation Justice.
At "$1,000 a kilogramme, more or less like ivory," he calls the price "ridiculous" since the scales "are made of keratin, like in fingernails".
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