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Critically endangered pangolins rescued, then sold as food
In some of the more bizarre food news this month: Police in Vietnam’s northern Bac Ninh province recently seized 42 live, critically endangered Sunda Pangolins from poachers, fined the culprits, and delivered the animals to forest rangers for safekeeping—at which point those forest rangers proceeded to undo all this valiant action by selling the animals off to local restaurants. They secured almost $12,000 for the illegal meat, leaving the creatures to have their...
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All this business with endangered and rescued animals being slaughtered is wrong. I get that people need to eat but nonetheless it is still very wrong and needs to be stopped asap.
The sad reality is that people just don't care. One of these days, someone is going to taint some of that poor Pangolin meat and kill a few people. Then maybe those people will stop and think about eating extremely endangered animals.
Why are they so yummy??