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Inside San Francisco's Chinatown 'wet market' where animals are cruelly butchered and 'unsanitary conditions' run rampant
Daily Mail uK ^ | 04 Jan 2025 | JOSH BOSWELL and SHAWN COHEN

Posted on 01/05/2025 6:34:52 PM PST by blueplum

Turtles are allegedly being brutally beaten and butchered in San Francisco's Chinese 'wet markets', and the 'illegal' activity has now been caught on video by an animal charity.

Exclusive video obtained by DailyMail.com showed workers cutting open turtles while their legs were still moving, part-suffocating frogs then decapitating them alive, leaving fish out of water to slowly die and bludgeoning other animals...

A DailyMail.com reporter visited the three Chinatown markets on Christmas Eve to investigate what was uncovered in the nonprofit's footage....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; chinatown; disease; pandemics; peta; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; wetmarkets
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1 posted on 01/05/2025 6:34:52 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Horrible.


2 posted on 01/05/2025 6:36:26 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: blueplum

Get ready for some “bat soup flu” reports out of the San Fran Chinatown wet-markets.


3 posted on 01/05/2025 6:39:09 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: blueplum

Better than ass mud on the sidewalk.


4 posted on 01/05/2025 6:39:26 PM PST by JZelle
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To: blueplum

“It’s Chinatown, Jake.”


5 posted on 01/05/2025 6:43:14 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: blueplum

Turtles and frogs in San Francisco.

Dogs and squirrels in Springfield.

Ain’t Diversity Grand?


6 posted on 01/05/2025 6:44:40 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: blueplum

Someone said that all cultures are equal, no? Will the lefties walk that back in this case?


7 posted on 01/05/2025 6:45:21 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: blueplum

Last week I was in a Thailand Market, a hog had been freshly butchered. But it’s the minor leagues when compared to Cambodian markets selling dog meat.

Warning, you don’t want to see this:

https://www.google.com/search?num=10&sca_esv=53e635cf3415af69&sxsrf=ADLYWIJrwhVgIomR—gyXhCCeXiarDE14Q:1736131381697&q=dog+meat+markets+cambodia&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3J03RPjGV0MznOJ6Likin94rLkdEDZS2ohqqm4_523m0MAz65tsTQRr2SIpmrfMH_q2jYJVcxNkk89IyNNGJWplGAyJuiamhRxZiQR9kIYs2wzJj5kEXRmx_E7ZY0rWVEBT1cu152klcTjq86zeRfdLB_2VmmRjbDL0g_m04BXvv3rxp1KA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQjaiyieCKAxXE5skDHVVqCzMQtKgLegQIFxAB&biw=1528&bih=738&dpr=1.25


8 posted on 01/05/2025 6:45:22 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: JZelle

That’s San Fransucko for you.


9 posted on 01/05/2025 6:45:25 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: blueplum

“… cutting open turtles while their legs were still moving…”
Turtles have a “swimming reflex” that moves their legs even after their brains are destroyed.

“… then decapitating them alive..”
What’s the point of decapitating them if they’re already dead?

“… leaving fish out of water to slowly die and bludgeoning other animals…”
I don’t know about the fish, but many fish have their gill arteries cut to bleed them out, and the authors obviously have never seen the bolt guns used at slaughterhouses.

Meat and seafood doesn’t come wrapped in plastic.


10 posted on 01/05/2025 6:51:27 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: blueplum

Why are the blowhard SF leftists permitting this animal cruelty?


11 posted on 01/05/2025 6:51:43 PM PST by doc maverick
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They’re clowns.


12 posted on 01/05/2025 6:52:40 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: blueplum
Exclusive video obtained by DailyMail.com showed workers cutting open turtles while their legs were still moving

More hyperbole and overkill from the Daily Fail. These "wet markets" are totally normal in Asia and have been around for thousands of years. The problem here isn't Asian culture, but a hypersensitive and easily offended Western culture that's sinking fast.

13 posted on 01/05/2025 6:54:28 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: All

Diversity is our strenght


14 posted on 01/05/2025 7:02:04 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: doc maverick

Good question.


15 posted on 01/05/2025 7:03:32 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I bet you’d never see abortion described like this in the DM.


16 posted on 01/05/2025 7:05:57 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: blueplum

You mean our magic soil doesn’t work on everyone?


17 posted on 01/05/2025 7:07:44 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: doc maverick

They don’t dare risk being called “THAT’S WAYCIST!”


18 posted on 01/05/2025 7:09:58 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: blueplum

I’ve seen turtles move a week after being butchered. Their metabolism is really weird.

Anyone who has gone shark or tuna fishing knows it’s common to thump them.

Frogs are really hard to kill. With their small brains, you could run an ice pick into their head repeatedly and not hit it. They die slowly too.

It isn’t a big deal the unfilleted fish was dropped.

Clearly, none of the people writing the article have ever been on a farm or hunting or fishing.


19 posted on 01/05/2025 7:13:12 PM PST by rey
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Decapitating a turtle seems to be the best way to put it down. How more humanely would one do it?


20 posted on 01/05/2025 7:13:46 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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