Chinese market at center of coronavirus outbreak sold wolves, rats to eat

NY Post ^ | January 23 2020 | Lia Eustachewich

[knighthawk]

The Chinese market at the center of the deadly coronavirus outbreak sold live animals — including wolf pups, foxes, rats and peacocks — to eat, according to a new report.

The wild animals were among 112 items that were peddled at the Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan, Agence France-Press reported.

Other wildlife sold at the market, which has since been shuttered, included crocodiles, giant salamanders, snakes, porcupines and camel meat.

[Fai Mao]

I guess this is a good place to insert this link:

The God of Cookery (1996)
Steven Chow
Cantonese w/English Subtitles
https://youtu.be/l8_Mk3-sZsQ

[cuban leaf]

Are they having a food crisis in China? Do they need our food imports?

[Fresh Wind]

FReepers Upset Over Bat Eating Chinese

Must be one of these...

[Paul R.]

Well, heck, squirrels are basically just largish, fancy rats, and squirrel well prepared is absolutely delicious.

Frog legs can be very good too — how far is that from a big salamander?

I do have my limits though. I’d pass on the bat, dog (unless starving), and most any Filipino food that starts with a “B”.

[riri]

with 4 legs except a table

Actually now with their addition of plastics and melamine in the food supply, you can't even really say that anymore.

[11th_VA]

A list of prices for one of the businesses operating at the market showed "live tree bears" which is the Chinese name for "koala".

[Jim Noble]

Biodefense.

[Zhang Fei]

[For what it is worth, this is exactly how Ebola was spread in Sierra Leone. People there ate “jungle meat” or “bush meat” which consisted of bats, monkeys and anything else not specifically nailed down. And they would not stop, even when told that this is where the Ebola came from.]

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Willard Price was a Long Islander who saw and experienced a lot of interesting thing around the world. He was even a civilian watcher who provided intelligence to the OSS during WWII at great risk to his personal well-being. His literary output included a series of adventure novels targeted at teens. One book covered a part of Africa and how the locals would consume choice bits from game animals completely raw while still warm, before rigor mortis set in. If these practices remain unchanged, it’s pretty clear how a diseased game animal could easily pass on its bacterial or viral load. And diseased animals, on the devil take the hindmost principle, would be the easiest game to bag.

[Zhang Fei]

[Biodefense]

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Part of the big green machine, but in a lab coat? Thank you for your service.

[Gen.Blather]

My sister and mother toured China in the 1980’s. They said there wasn’t a bird, cat or dog anywhere to be seen. They were taken to a zoo and shown beagle puppies. The puppies were isolated behind two levels of fence. The guide told them it was for the puppies’ safety. Without the fences they would be meat on someone’s table by morning.

[bramps]

Of course this has nothing to do with the level 4 biolab in that city.

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Judging by the replies on this thread, they've sold the animal link pretty good.

You want to see some major league irony, read this article that talks about the lab in Wuhan being the ONLY one in China that can safely contain the virus for examination. Not one word about the lab possibly being the source.

https://www.livescience.com/china-lab-meets-biosafety-levels-new-coronavirus.html

[Biggirl]

Well we have the better food.

[Zhang Fei]

[Judging by the replies on this thread, they’ve sold the animal link pretty good.]

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I think it’s Occam’s Razor at work. Virulent bugs emanated from China thousands of years before the first bio lab came into being. I suspect it’s related to the way they raise animals or process meat for sale.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/23/appetite-for-warm-meat-drives-risk-of-disease-in-hong-kong-and-china

A sidenote: Did kosher processing of meat prevent disease outbreaks related to meat handling?

[bramps]

In this case, imho, I’d say Occam’s Razor points to the lab.

[Jim Noble]

Civilian consultant.

[Zhang Fei]

[In this case, imho, I’d say Occam’s Razor points to the lab.]

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What about all those other outbreaks that did not originate in Wuhan?

[Zhang Fei]

[Civilian consultant]

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Same difference, except for the Army pension. If you had to be in close proximity to the bugs, you were probably in greater danger on any given day than Buttigieg was through his entire in-country stint

[bramps]

What about all those other outbreaks that did not originate in Wuhan?

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They were decoys to cover for this outbreak.

[SgtHooper]

These idiotic excuses for humans are the ants of humankind! They will eat anything and everything!! I see soilant green in their distant future!

[pabianice]

The pic of a woman eating a boiled-alive bat put me of my feed yesterday.