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Shocking footage has emerged showing bats, cats, dogs and even pangolins are still being sold in notorious “wet markets” across Asia, despite evidence the coronavirus pandemic emerged from one.
The animals are being sold from cramped cages in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Laos, and Sri Lanka.
In April, the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for the markets to be banned, asking governments to suspend the trade in live caught wild animals of mammal species for food or breeding purposes and close sections of food markets selling live caught wild animals of mammalian species as an emergency measure..
Investigators at a wet market in Sulawesi, Indonesia discovered bats and rats still being sold, alongside pigs, dogs, snakes, frogs, chickens and ducks, the Mirror reports.
Now, new footage from the Asian branch of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shows horrific scenes in which helpless creatures are strung up and sold for their meat.
In Indonesia, reports The Mirror, tiny little monkeys are crammed into even smaller cages with barely enough space to slip their small hands through the bars.
In the same market, scores of bats hang from the bars of a minuscule cage smaller than one of the animal’s wingspans alone.
In Thailand a stressed cat can be seen turning in circles inside her tiny cage that is just big enough for her to stand up in.
In the same Thai market a badly deformed duck is seen crammed into a hopelessly inadequate cage.
One of its legs is twisted painfully across its back, the bright skin in stark contrast to its grubby white feathers streaked with a mysterious brown sludge.
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