I know I am discussing an entirely different culture to the one that I am familiar with, which is probably why this video is disgusting to me. Do you agree with me? This sweet-looking, petit, young woman in a schoolgirl’s skirt with a schoolgirl voice buys a Chinese giant salamander from a street trader. The giant salamander is in a box fully sealed, which can’t have been comfortable for the salamander. She feeds a family with the creature. Fortunately, we don’t see the killing because that really would have been impossible for me to watch.
And the Chinese giant salamander is now critically endangered due to human consumption, habitat loss and water pollution. This woman is totally ignoring conservation at a time when conservation should be very important on this planet.
The Chinese giant salamander is undoubtedly ugly but they have remained unchanged for over 170 million years. There are 5-8 species of Chinese giant salamander. They can grow to nearly 6 feet in size and weight up to 110. They are the largest amphibian in the world. In captivity they are known to live for 60 years or more.
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It took me a little while to get around to watching the video at all. This young woman is a popular Chinese food blogger. She is known as Tizi. She has more than 7.8 million followers on a Chinese streaming channel and she was filmed collecting what she said was a shark, 2 meters in length, from a seafood shop in the south west city of Nanchong.
She said that the shark was bred in captivity but viewers questioned her claim. The video shows her halving the shark, boiling the head in a broth and barbecuing the tail. The video drew criticism and the police are investigating because they determined that the fish was a great white shark which is endangered in China and listed as vulnerable by the IUCN Red List.
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The police said that she did not buy the shark from a local shop but online from a source in the south-east coastal region of Fujian. There appears to be a black market there. It may surprise you to know that the unlawful trade in wildlife products is punishable by prison terms and fines in China but it is a country which supports the poaching of the Bengal tiger in India to supply the idiotic trade of eating its penis in order to make men more virile. Completely bonkers.
And Covid started in China because of their brutal and unregulated slaughter of many wild species such as bats and pangolins in wet markets. Since Covid they’ve been cleaned up but the horse has bolted and I am sure the same unregulated slaughter continues. Oh, and they don’t have animal welfare laws in China. Is this because if they had animal welfare laws the courts would be flooded with animal cruelty cases? They couldn’t cope.
It is impossible to have animal welfare laws in China as their treatment of animals such as dogs in the dog meat markets and fur markets are a catastrophic breach of any animal welfare law. If they created these laws, they’d have to close the fur trade industry. No way. Business and money trumps animal welfare all the time in China.
Yes, we are a different culture but somethings such as morality, decency and respect for animals and not causing animals huge amounts of unnecessary pain is universal.
Below are some more articles on animal China.
