For Immediate Release:
May 14, 2020

Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382

Washington – As the novel coronavirus continues to sicken and kill people worldwide, PETA is releasing new video footage, recorded in the past few weeks, showing filthy live-animal markets full of dogs, bats, monkeys, civets, and snakes still operating in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Thailand.

The video shows live civets (who’ve been linked to SARS) and bats (who’ve been linked to COVID-19) being sold in Indonesia as well as monkeys, birds, and cats being held in cages, all of which were covered with layers of rotten food and feces, on top of and directly next to each other. One rabbit convulsed and died right in front of the investigator. In Thailand, ducks and chickens…