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Coronavirus and wildlife trade (1 Viewer)

I was very concious of not being around in the event that they actually killed any dogs on site whilst I was there but they didn't, not that I saw anyway.

The animals are brutally, battered to death, they say a fear hormone is realeased by killing this way which flavours the meat. Same in S Korea where dogs are hung by the neck and beaten to death, 21st century my arse.

It also happens in the villages away from tourists in Bali.

Unbelievable!
 
I've still not read anything about the precise origine of the virus, but this recent paper concludes its an animal source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm

Some actions seems to be taken now in China and Vietnam, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-under-assault-as-law-drafted-to-halt-trading

I remember the pitiful convoys of trucks, carrying dogs to Vietnam when we were in Laos together Florien.

I remember we could hear the trucks coming from some distance by the hopeless sounds of the animals and as the trucks went uphill, all the urine was spilling off the truck on to the road, awful trade.

You seem to have avoided the camera on this trip...........;)
 

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I remember the pitiful convoys of trucks, carrying dogs to Vietnam when we were in Laos together Florien.

I remember we could hear the trucks coming from some distance by the hopeless sounds of the animals and as the trucks went uphill, all the urine was spilling off the truck on to the road, awful trade.

Yes I remember those. Spooky experience.

Here another article on the topc of Corona and wildlife trade: Ban wildlife markets to avert pandemics, says UN biodiversity chief

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...un-biodiversity-chief-age-of-extinction?CMP=S
 
So far, China is reopening its wildlife markets. The change seems to be that Chinese police is preventing visitors from taking photos. :C

Here another article on the topc of Corona and wildlife trade: Ban wildlife markets to avert pandemics, says UN biodiversity chief

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...un-biodiversity-chief-age-of-extinction?CMP=S

The argument that indigenous people eat wildlife is invalid. First, wildlife markets in China are luxury markets, Chinese have enough meat of domestic animals to eat. Second, wet markets elsewhere, e.g. Indonesia or Africa, are NOT subsistence hunting: they are large scale local industry with professional hunters sending thousands of wild animals unhigienically to large population centers. Subsistence poverty hunting in remote Central Africa or Oceania will continue and is impossible to control, unfortunately, however these people get viruses and die, too. There is nothing protecting them.
 
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