Random fact: Fluffies are quite a popular dish in some parts of China. They need to be kept alive as long as possible prior to preparing, as their meat tends to harden and loose it’s taste quickly after death.
Chinese officials dissaprove of any claims that Hasbio products are being sold in the country - as dishes or otherwise. Furthermore “Such products simply do not comply with health and safety standards functioning in our market, they cannot be found in stores or served as food. We diligently inspect any claims that state otherwise and act accordingly” - adds CFDA’s head of Dept. of Food Safety Supervision - Wan Zhejiang.
As some independent sources claim however: The ban only includes “Fluffies”. If the product being sold isn’t labeled as a fluffy then it can be served without issue.
Often, wet markets sell animals outside the typical pigs-goats-cows. Examples include dogs and cats, bats, rats, snakes, monkeys and apes, and whatever else the seller’s hunters or breeders provide. These wild-caught food animals are often called bush meat.
Due to the wide and unregulated variety of animals sold, wet markets all too often bring localised pathogens to human populations, leading to zoonotic (animal to human, cross-species) outbreaks. A lot of epidemiologists suspect Ebola, Marburg, and covid, among others, are the product of wet markets and/or bush meat. Even HIV was the product of bush meat, with a mutation of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus jumping from a chimp to humans. It dates back to the 1920s, but was isolated to a fairly small section of Central Africa for decades.
I really hope this kind of thing can appear in our local restaurants or supermarkets in China. Anyway, watching these detestable things suffer makes me feel very happy.
