Originally Posted by KRL

This is true too.

The live animal markets, besides being cruel in the way they cram so many animals and poultry in the cages, are gross in terms of sanitation.

These are domestic cats:



And dogs:







It is estimated that up to 10 million dogs are slaughtered every year in China, many deliberately slowly and cruelly in the belief that "torture equals taste", whilst all suffer the stress and pain of being farmed in concentrated numbers before being killed in a variety of ways which rarely ensures a quick and humane death.

Animal Asia Investigators have witnessed trucks loaded with up to 2,000 dogs per truck arriving at the wholesale Hua Nam Wild Animal Market in Guangzhou. These poor animals have spent 3 days and 3 nights, squashed together in tiny cages, unable to move, without food, water or shelter. The dogs are then brutally lifted by the neck and hurled into a pen by a man wielding a metal tongs.

And these are the way domestics are handled. God only knows how they handle non-domestics.

So when you get this kind of discusting interaction between man and animals disease is easily created and spread.