Live Animals Are Still Being Sold in Keychains and Mobile Phone Trinkets – Let’s Stop This NOW!

Aleksandra Pajda
March 5, 2018

In 2011, CNN brought public attention to a deeply disturbing trend that was observed in Beijing, China. Among your usual choice of trinkets and key chains displayed on vendors’ stalls, people were stunned to find live animals, like small fish, young Chinese soft-shell turtles, and other tiny amphibians, enclosed in little plastic pouches filled with colored water – for only around $1.50 a piece.

As one of the vendors selling the “live animals trinkets” told CNN, the bags contained crystallized oxygen and nutrients – thanks to which the animals were able to survive for days in these mind-boggling circumstances – but they needed to be freed from the bags as soon as the air ran out.

“There might be enough oxygen and food in the plastic casing but…