Used to buy salmon at Aldis. It was raised in ponds in China. Saw something one night on TV where over the ponds were chicken pens. The chickens droppings would fall in the water. The salmon would be schooled under the chicken pens waiting for the droppings like piranhas.
Needless to say, we don't buy any salmon from there anymore. Got some Alaskan-caught salmon this morning. More expensive, but feel more comfortable eating it.
When this first started, the report was worker at the wuhan lab was selling test animals at a live market. Those reports disappeared along with the reporters. The doctor that blew the whistle died, young.
Anyone remember the ban on eating wild animals over there?
Just some nasty people at those markets. Nothing on ice and it must be warm out as nobody is dressed up For cool weather. Yuck only thing I would buy there are the live ducks
#1. We cook lobsters while alive. That’s comparable to eating live shrimp dipped in tempura and boiled in Japan. Or #2 northern trappers shipping raccoon carcasses to southern people. You can just bet those coon carcasses were cleaned in USDA approved garages. Not in a million years.
Chinese meat poultry and fish cooking is never to rare or medium rare. And the vast majority of Chinese don’t use their fingers to eat. They use chopsticks unless at McDonalds/KFC/Pizza Hut or Dairy Queen. Finger food and transferring junk from fingers is an American thing these days.
I don’t recall seeing any cut animals waiting around for extended periods (>2-4 hours) to be cooked, when I was living there. Most of what I saw was alive and killed to order. It’s surprising though, to see farmers markets in big cities in China. Some people still like “fresh” as opposed to frozen which was introduced by foreign marketers. Most city dwellers now have refrigerators and freezers. But the transition to frozen foods, especially frozen meats, has been slow in coming.
In Mexico and south of the border its more common to kill and hang.
Have not spent much time in mainland China but have in other parts of Asia.
Wet markets are not uncommon where a wide variety of fresh meats ranging from live to fully processed and some even cooked are readily available. They are generally open air markets on the ground floor of housing complexes and shopping daily for fresh meat is the norm. I did see some ice chest coolers in use for certain things but most was open air even in places where the temp never gets below 80 degrees. One wet market might serve 7 or 8 20 story housing complexes with 4 units on each floor. The units that I saw were equipped with moderate size refrigerators with very small freezer compartments. Daily shopping was the norm for fresh goods.
Amazingly, I did not observe a lot of insects that I would expect in those conditions. There were a variety of odors from the killing and processing for sure but for the most part, the area was kept pretty clean and washed down, hence the term wet market. And it appeared that most of the shopping was done early in the day and by mid day, all of the raw meats were gone. Some of the shops that cooked and served meals were still open though.
On several occasions, late at night, I have seen open air trucks with 20 or 30 freshly butchered hogs hanging by gambrels from racks going down city streets. No refrigeration during transport for sure.
Spent a lot of time in Asia over a 10 year period and ate at lots of local places. Only once did I get hold of something that upset my stomach and I knew exactly what caused that and should have known better. Sort of like avoiding the water in Mexico.
BTW, I have a fella that will come get most any coyote that I deem not worth skinning. He wants them whole, unskinned. Considers them a delicacy. He was born in Thailand and emigrated to the US from Burma.
I’ve had dog in what’s called hua gua (hot pot). It’s a mixture of water, cooking oil, and various spices boiled over what amounted to ster-no. It was strips of dog muscle, with bowls of rice, and stir fried/boiled veggies. It was excellent.
Between 70 years of socialism / communism and eons of warlords before the poor in China have been starving , can't really be surprised at some of the weird stuff they eat . And some want to bring their economics here ,
#1. We cook lobsters while alive. That’s comparable to eating live shrimp dipped in tempura and boiled in Japan. Or #2 northern trappers shipping raccoon carcasses to southern people. You can just bet those coon carcasses were cleaned in USDA approved garages. Not in a million years.
Chinese meat poultry and fish cooking is never to rare or medium rare. And the vast majority of Chinese don’t use their fingers to eat. They use chopsticks unless at McDonalds/KFC/Pizza Hut or Dairy Queen. Finger food and transferring junk from fingers is an American thing these days.
Does it matter if you're using your fingers or chopsticks when consuming virus infested bats? Just wondering out loud.
#1. We cook lobsters while alive. That’s comparable to eating live shrimp dipped in tempura and boiled in Japan. Or #2 northern trappers shipping raccoon carcasses to southern people. You can just bet those coon carcasses were cleaned in USDA approved garages. Not in a million years.
Chinese meat poultry and fish cooking is never to rare or medium rare. And the vast majority of Chinese don’t use their fingers to eat. They use chopsticks unless at McDonalds/KFC/Pizza Hut or Dairy Queen. Finger food and transferring junk from fingers is an American thing these days.
Does it matter if you're using your fingers or chopsticks when consuming virus infested bats? Just wondering out loud.
Only if you're a liberal, who hates American culture and thinks other cultures are inherently better, even though they would exterminate you or beat and starve you into their way if thinking, if you had the misfortune to be born into that culture.