China takes wild animals off the menu amid virus epidemic – does that mean no more snake soup?

China takes wild animals off the menu amid coronavirus epidemic – does that mean no more snake soup or frog porridge? | South China Morning Post

From snakes to civet cats, China has an appetite for wild animals, whether farmed or hunted

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government has banned the trade and consumption of wild animals, which worries frog and turtle breeders
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Too bad. I've always looked forward to a steam pot of civet cat fung gool. Have to take that off my bucket list.

Americans are the **** eaters.

The Chinese government can say what they want the people to do, but you can't erase 1000 years of dirty Chinese culinary and poor hygiene over night with a magic wand. These people like eating rats, monkeys, dogs, and lizards.

Court Jester said:

The Chinese government can say what they want the people to do, but you can't erase 1000 years of dirty Chinese culinary and poor hygiene over night with a magic wand. These people like eating rats, monkeys, dogs, and lizards.

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Yummy.

Chinese believe it strengthens their immune systems and vital organs.

They still swear to it as they drop dead of viruses one after another over recent expansive decades of growth and development.

So Chinese people are very wounded psychologically and emotionally to see China getting hammered due to their own primitive and ancient beliefs while the entire world focuses on them and it.

A certain number of Chinese still do not accept that the Chinese could be wrong about this (or wrong about anything) so what we call the conspiracy theories prevail focused on CIA as the one who done it. This is a common theme among too many Chinese who in yet another of many such instances blamed the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 on America.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government has banned the trade and consumption of wild animals, which worries frog and turtle breeders.

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It is the most sensible thing to do. Coronaviruses circulating in animals are endemic in China and as long as they keep trading wild animals that carry the bat virus, they will have another SARS epidemic.

Its a billion dollar industry. Lets see if the ban lasts.

PoS said:

Its a billion dollar industry. Lets see if the ban lasts.

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It won't and it never has in the past going back almost 50 years to yet an earlier strain of Hong Kong Swine Flu Americans and Europeans were vaccinated against while Ford was Potus. After that flu ran its course while also being stopped by the vaccinations the Chinese resumed their wild animal sales in what are called "Wet Markets" of numerous and concentrated outdoor stalls where birds, bats, snakes etc are kept live and their droppings always need to be looked after.

The Wet Markets are almost always wet literally due to being hosed over repeatedly using simple garden hoses rather than disinfectants that cost vendors money they won't spend on it. Vegetables exposed to the polluted air are simply hand sprayed using hand pumped containers that in the US are out of stock or low on stock, sell for a small fortune and that sell in China for almost the price of gold these dayze.

After this has passed Chinese will almost surely resume their sale and consumption of live animals in wet markets and elsewhere because eating these vile creatures is deeply rooted in thousands of years of Chinese food culture and in the Chinese psyche as making a man out of you, and as building up women for childbirth although the one child policy that's been recently modified -- and that applies mostly to the cities rather than the countryside where the other half live -- runs counter to the ancient and historical Chinese ethos that eating nasty animals make humans tough to include women for multiple childbearing.

On the much milder yet still dangerous side for trichinosis I was walking along a neighborhood street in Guangzhou City which is the old Canton and saw a woman with a rectangular big bird cage selling live pigeons which are considered a tender delicacy to boil and eat. She was set up in a narrow walkway into a concentration of apartment buildings where police couldn't easily see her between the buildings and where only pedestrians or people on bicycles or a motorcycle would come upon.

None of this is over and not by a longshot. It's like guns in the USA.