Posted on 05/14/2020 8:36:04 PM PDT by rintintin
Recently I wrote about the biblical injunctions against eating certain types of animals, such as bats – which is repeated not once but twice in the Bible – and why these prescriptions should apply to the wet markets in China. I was criticized by some for being cul Reg turally insensitive. If the Chinese want to eat bats, it’s their business.
Now, however, liberal icon Bill Maher also denounced the idea of eating bats. As he put it, “Eating bats is bats*** crazy.” His comments were highlighted by another liberal icon, Maureen Dowd, in The New York Times, and has been echoed by many other public figures.
Now, we have learned that China has a law that allows animals to be used in Chinese medicine and the government is recommending treating COVID-19 with injections of bear bile. According to National Geographic, “At bear bile farms in China and across Southeast Asia, the animals may be kept for decades in small cages. Bile is routinely extracted by inserting a catheter, syringe or pipe into the gallbladder.” The magazine quotes Animals Asia, which said the processes “cause severe suffering, pain, and infection.”
It is bad enough that China allows the consumption of dead animals like bats, but this abuse of live animals is a violation of the Noahide Law: “Do not eat a live animal.” This is a law that is universally applicable and its shocking that China would extract bile from living bears.
Forget religion and opinion about the abhorrence of the practice of eating animals like bats and buying exotic animals in wet markets. Listen to the US’s most respected scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who said, “It boggles my mind how when we have so many diseases that emanate ...
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Well, you certainly use know that the wet market was NOT the source THIS outbreak. Right?
Fauci? Respected? You’ve got to be Schiffing me.
While I frown on the practices at those wet markets, they’ve
been around for a long long time, and haven’t been a problem
before.
Anything is possible, but I am about 99.999% certain this
came from their lab. You know, the one we sere funding in
part.
It is incredibly shocking how stupid we have been.
Well, you certainly use know that the wet market was NOT the source THIS outbreak. Right?“
I know that they’ve been the source of a number of deadly pandemics and they need to be closed down. SARS. Asian flu. Epidemiologists have been screaming about these filthy barbaric Chinese wet markets literally for decades. Since the 1950s at least They need to be closed down
Obama is a natural born US citizen
It was an awful internet video
Epstein killed himself
Cubic Zirconia is just as good as a real diamond
The virus came from the Wuhan wet market
I’m sensing a pattern...
While I frown on the practices at those wet markets, they’ve
been around for a long long time, and haven’t been a problem
before.“
Not true. Epidemiologists have been tracing diseases to them for 70 years. There are scientific papers all over the internet that date from the 50s 60s 70s. Also, read the full article I posted.
Interesting how so many Freepers want to defend these disgusting Chinese wet markets
I wonder what the Cav colonel in Apocalypse Now would say if the was napalm dropped on the Chinese wet market?
One should never kill a bat since one day you may have to make your own gunpowder.
One of many studies long predating COVID-19
Infectious Diseases Emerging From Chinese Wet-Markets: Zoonotic Origins of Severe Respiratory Viral Infections
Patrick Cy Woo et al. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2006 Oct.
Abstract
Purpose of review: In China, close contacts between humans and food animals have resulted in the transmission of many microbes from animals to humans. The two most notable infectious diseases in recent years are severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian influenza. In this review, these two severe zoonotic viral infections transmitted by the respiratory route, with pandemic potential, are used as models to illustrate the role of Chinese wet-markets in their emergence, amplification and dissemination.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16940861/
Infectious Diseases Emerging From Chinese Wet-Markets: Zoonotic Origins of Severe Respiratory Viral Infections
Patrick Cy Woo et al. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2006 Oct.
Abstract
Purpose of review: In China, close contacts between humans and food animals have resulted in the transmission of many microbes from animals to humans. The two most notable infectious diseases in recent years are severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian influenza. In this review, these two severe zoonotic viral infections transmitted by the respiratory route, with pandemic potential, are used as models to illustrate the role of Chinese wet-markets in their emergence, amplification and dissemination.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16940861/
I’m surprised liberals here in ‘Sanctuary States’ aren’t allowing Chinese to open wet markets here and encouraging them to do so—
Every plague that has devastated Western civilization has originated in China.
(Ebola and HIV/AIDS originated in Africa but neither devastated Western civilization so long as the zipper remained up)
Yeah, the wet markets are disgusting, but it’ll be murder getting the Chinese to abandon them. Tradition, dontcha know. Maybe start with something simpler, more targetted, like cancelling those annual dog-eating festivals in which dogs are tortured and cooked alive.
I hate to break it to you, but those studies didn’t prevail
in revealing anything worth closing the wet markets over,
or they wouldn’t still be around.
We have some of those same clowns saying this started in the wet
markets. That ignores what we have found out about the
lab, which was being funded in part by Fauci’s organization.
I don’t defend them. I’m simply stating a fact that there
has not been anything found worthy of closing those markets.
People frequent them. Do you think they have a death wish?
Do you think they go there hoping to get ill?
You wouldn’t catch me eating in one of them, or eating a number
of things Asians eat.
And yet, they are still open.
People still frequent them.
Maybe these scientists need to go rescue the folks in China
from themselves.
By the way, you can find a paper to back just about anything.
Opinions differ. I’m actually neutral on it.
By the way, you can find a paper to back just about anything.
I can find dozens of scientific papers over decades on the wet market problem. YOU said wet markets had never cause a problem. I was just trying to encourage you to do a little reading.
I won’t accuse you of ignorant shooting from the hip, because I have done more than my share of that on other issues.
I appreciate the note of explanation.
I just don’t understand why some FReepers defend the labs.
(LOL)
These studies are a hoot.
The wet markets are popular in China. People go to there
regularly. Their family and friends do. Do you believe
those people would go there if their family and friends
were dropping dead, or coming down with serious bouts
of illness continually?
So despite “many” studies done, guess what. The man on the
street doesn’t buy into their findings. They’ve been going
to them for generations.
Turns my stomach to know what goes on in them, but I am not
convinced these studies are worth the paper they are written
on.
And yes, it’s okay to point out to me that people have been
saying things negative about them for decades.
I guess the centuries they’ve been around hasn’t raised
an issue for the folks who frequent them.
that’s a laugh. they’ll never close these markets, for many reasons, but the main one for the CCP is that it provides a perfect cover for their bio-lab pathogen experimentations and bio-weapons development programs. again, our expert fauci wins the benedict arnold prize for aiding and abetting our enemy by funding these labs in china.
I was in a position to be detailed on medications for 27
years. I’ve seen my share of studies.
On guy would come in and explain the benefits of his product
over someone else’s. Then that someone else would come in
and tell me why the other guy was wrong.
Both had great looking studies. I’ve been in situations
where three different companies were trying to carve out as
big a piece of the pie as they could get, each with great
looking studies.
Each had bad things to say about the other brands. There
was some aspect they could pick apart, and they generally
always did.
This kind of soured me on using studies as my go-to at
times.
You were reasoned to bring up the studies you’ve seen, and
to imply it would be best if I read this one, and I think
you were probably right.
Wasn’t trying to give you a hard time. I can be obstinate at
times.
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