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I do not understand the reason for butchering wild life animals (e.g. bats). Is it belief system (e.g. traditional Chinese medicine) or they are just hungry?

allovernow 7y ago
Both. Folk medicine is extremely common in China and the idea is that certain body parts from certain animals cure ailments/improve performance. Total backwards voodoo bullshit - like suppliments and crystals and homeopathy in the west, except animals are literally tortured over it. There's a reason you can find so many videos online of Chinese people torturing animals. There is a belief in China (and to a lesser extent in other nations like Korea and I believe Vietnam) that making animals suffer pre slaughter makes the meat tastier. And honestly it isn't a stretch that adrenal hormones released just before death can influence the flavor or texture of meat, but I don't know if that justifies cruelty...
- cksquare 7y ago
  Ah, citation bruh?
- dang 7y ago
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  - anthk 7y ago
    he/she shoudln't be banned, 's partly right: https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=south+korea+boknal&cat=web&pl=ext-ff&language=english&extVersion=1.3.0 https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=south+korea+bokna...
    - dang 7y ago
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- anarticle 7y ago
  https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3853 https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3853 There is evidence for this.
gdubs 7y ago
Anthony Bourdain (RIP) loved weird exotic food — he talked about it at length in his books. The weirder the better. (Not for me; I went vegetarian about 5 years ago.) These wildlife markets are a particular problem. But virologists (see: Pandemic on Netflix) highlight not just the wildlife trade be our enormous animal agriculture production as an explosive situation.

allovernow 7y ago

Both. Folk medicine is extremely common in China and the idea is that certain body parts from certain animals cure ailments/improve performance. Total backwards voodoo bullshit - like suppliments and crystals and homeopathy in the west, except animals are literally tortured over it. There's a reason you can find so many videos online of Chinese people torturing animals. There is a belief in China (and to a lesser extent in other nations like Korea and I believe Vietnam) that making animals suffer pre slaughter makes the meat tastier. And honestly it isn't a stretch that adrenal hormones released just before death can influence the flavor or texture of meat, but I don't know if that justifies cruelty...

cksquare 7y ago
Ah, citation bruh?
dang 7y ago
We've banned this account for flamewar posting. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977, and if you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
- anthk 7y ago
  he/she shoudln't be banned, 's partly right: https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=south+korea+boknal&cat=web&pl=ext-ff&language=english&extVersion=1.3.0 https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=south+korea+bokna...
  - dang 7y ago
    Being right and following the site guidelines are different things. The latter is what protects the community from destroying itself—assuming that's possible. Fortunately, the two support each other, because if you're right, expressing your view in a thoughtful way makes the truth more apparent to others, while fulminating and attacking enemies merely alienates everyone who doesn't already agree with you. You end up discrediting the very truth you're advocating for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20truth%20discredit&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
anarticle 7y ago
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3853 https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3853 There is evidence for this.

gdubs 7y ago

Anthony Bourdain (RIP) loved weird exotic food — he talked about it at length in his books. The weirder the better. (Not for me; I went vegetarian about 5 years ago.) These wildlife markets are a particular problem. But virologists (see: Pandemic on Netflix) highlight not just the wildlife trade be our enormous animal agriculture production as an explosive situation.