Shocking PETA Video Shows Asian Wet Markets Still Selling Bats, Monkeys... For Consumption

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released a stunning video showing Asian wet markets selling animals for meat, including Monkeys and Bats, are still open for business amid the coronavirus pandemic - inspite some governments vow to ban such trade.

The video shows Jatinegara Bird Market in Jakarta selling Monkeys, and Civets - which have been linked to SARS and Bats widely linked to the coronavirus - despite the city being the epicenter for COVID-19 in Indonesia.

“PETA is calling on government officials to shut down these Petri dishes for pandemics,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a press release.

Meanwhile in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam butchers gutted fish on a street — where the cooked heads and other body parts of dogs were piled up for display.

PETA Asia has urged respective public health organisations/bodies in Asian countries including China, Indonesia and Thailand to close all wet markets.

The coronavirus pandemic is believed to have emerged in a “wet market” in Wuhan, China that sold live animals in abysmal conditions.

Environmentalists and scientists have also issued dire warnings to stop the illegal wildlife trade — fearing it could lead to another pandemic that could wipe out civilization.

PETA in other hand made news this week for selling a $160 Halloween costume mocking “Tiger King” subject Joe Exotic...

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