PM puzzled by unfathomable animal markets

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Depressing.If only the people consuming the bats and other poor creatures got sick instead of the whole world.
If someone wants to eat Fugu it’s their funeral, or not.Thousands don’t die.

Story from 2017 about China's markets:

Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic?

... Officially, the live-bird markets in Beijing have been shuttered for years. In reality, guerrilla vendors run furtive slaughterhouses throughout this national capital of wide avenues, gleaming architecture and more than 20 million residents—despite warnings that their businesses could be spreading deadly new strains of the flu.

In one such market, a man in sweatstained shorts had stacked dozens of cages—jammed with chickens, pigeons, quail—on the pavement outside his grim hovel.

I picked out two plump brown chickens. He slit their throats, tossed the flapping birds into a greasy four-foot-tall ceramic pot, and waited for the blood-spurting commotion to die down. A few minutes later he dunked the chickens in boiling water. To de-feather them, he turned to a sort of ramshackle washing machine with its rotating drum studded with rubber protuberances. Soon, feathers and sludge splashed onto a pavement slick with who knows what.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180965213/