Eating wild animals is now officially banned in Wuhan, China, the city’s administration recently announced. This is the latest in several welcomed moves throughout the country responding to the coronavirus pandemic, including a nationwide ban on trading wildlife and government buyouts to help wildlife farmers transition to plant-based farms.
Wuhan’s newly-imposed ban implements strict limitations on wild animal breeding, and raising wildlife for food is completely forbidden. Additionally, officials declared the city a wildlife sanctuary and prohibited almost all hunting of wild animals within its limits.
Wuhan is located in Hubei province, very close to Hunan and Jangxi, where regional governments are offering to compensate wildlife breeders to switch to plant-based farming. City officials have announced plans for Wuhan to participate in a similar program.
The first COVID-19 case likely emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, and is thought to be the result of China’s wildlife trade. Past outbreaks, including the 2004 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) pandemic, have also been attributed to the live animal markets.
Some experts fear that banning the trade and consumption of wildlife isn’t enough to stop the coronavirus pandemic, since a black market is likely to emerge and cater to the demand for exotic animals that some people in China consider delicacies, such as bats and pangolins.
Nevertheless, the ban is a welcomed first step.
“Banning wildlife consumption in Wuhan is a welcome move for animal welfare as well as human health,” said Lady Freethinker founder Nina Jackel. “If properly enforced, the ban has the potential to save countless lives.”
Its obvious that the black market in wildlife animals will flourish as these brain-dead, heartless, gutless, cruel, brutal, sadistic, barbaric, depraved psychotic masses in CHINA will still carry on horrifically torturing, abusing and killing innocent animals to satisfy their most perverted tastes. I, for one, will NEVER believe anything that is uttered by that country as they are continually lying, even Chinese people in other countries have been known to steal and kill innocent dogs and cats so they can eat the abused flesh which ‘cures’ all ailments and make the pathetic, sick ‘men’ more virile….does the rest of the world really want more of these deranged monsters walking on this planet????
100% agree
God tells us which animals to eat? Does Got tells us to eat more than one million animals per hour, to heinously slaughter 3 hundred animals every second????? Do you realize how farm animals suffer in factory farms and high-speed slaughterhouses??? They are tortured their entire lives, for example lambs and piglets have their tails cut off without an anesthesia, male babies are castrated – without an anesthesia, of course, who has time for compassion? 175 chickens are murdered every MINUTE!!! A pig is murdered every 5 SECONDS!!! All that unimaginable pain and suffering of innocent, sentient beings is to cater to human insatiable appetite for meat, dairy, and eggs !!! 7.8 billion of cruel humans (and counting) raise billions upon the billions of animals which suffer unconscionable pain and die in agony – how our planet suppose to sustain it?? Animal agriculture is a major contributor to our planet’s most significant environmental threats, greater than industrial and car/aviation pollution combined.
It’s not just evil live animal markets in East Asia that pose a public health menace (viruses like COVID19). Factory farms and the slaughter industry is linked to emergence and spread of whole host of health threats including antibiotic-resistant bacteria, egg-born salmonella, bird flu, swine flu, mad cow disease, MRSA, SARS, and ever more dangerous strains of influenza …. all that so the irresponsible, apathetic, cruel “people” who do not give a damn about animal suffering and even about their health (arthritis, diabetes, heart diseases – clogged arteries, and various cancers are all caused by strong animal proteins in meat, eggs, and dairy which are very dissimilar from human protein and cause all those inflammations and chronic diseases in human body) nothing will stop “people” to gobble up enormous amounts of meat, dairy, and eggs every single day. They are destroying our planet and health and lives of all of us – COVID19 is not the last deadly virus, more potent are coming. Only universal compassion – kindness to ALL sentient beings can save us. Only inhuman human beings can destroy humanity, nothing else. Stand up and speak against cruelty to animals – for their sake and our own !!! Get in possession of your conscience, please !!!!!
Awesome comment and so truth. Thank you!