cyberdad wrote:
PhosphorusDecree wrote:
The SARS outbreak 20 years ago is now known to have come from palm civets sold in Chinese markets, and the civets probably caught it from horseshoe bats. So there's precedent.
This is true, SARS-COVID19 is highest in a animal called a Pangolin Pangolin meat is prized as a delicacy in parts of China and Vietnam. In China, the meat is believed to have nutritional value to aid kidney function. In Vietnam, restaurants charge as much as $150 per pound of pangolin meat.
To be more precise: pangolins are used more for their scales. Because ancient Chinese medicine books believe that the scales of pangolins can make the mother secrete more milk.
(Because pangolins are good at drilling, eating their scales unclogs the nipples. Ancient superstition.)
Pangolin meat is not the part that Chinese people particularly care about.
China's native pangolins are endangered. There has been a lot of news about Chinese customs seizing many smuggled pangolin scales from Africa.
The good news is that the crackdown on similar behavior is getting tougher.
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