Wang Yingyi: Can Chinese spectacles be used to work?

Fiseriko Middot; Varrey Wang Yingyi

Since the 2019 coronary virus disease from Wuhan South China Market is widely suspected of its 2019 coronary virus disease. Since the outbreak of last December, public health and animal rights supporters have always called on Yanjia to check the seafood market.In these markets, various activities are extremely close to each other and between people, and they are slaughtered on the spot.These markets have spread the cross species of new diseases, creating good conditions.There are such markets throughout Asia, they support other industries, such as restaurants, tourism, traditional medicine, etc.

We know a little about Chinese wildlife transactions.In 2016, we made some interviews to study some underground banks near Macau and Hong Kong, and a underground banker showed us services other than money laundering.Tonight I can easily let you eat monkeys, she showed off, and then gave us an address in a private restaurant in Zhuhai's suburbs.

We rejected the invitation of the game, but we decided to visit it.We departed from the center of Zhuhai and found that restaurants operating illegal spectacles in the city center about one hour later found everywhere.We have learned that most animals come from local poachers, or spectacles such as Wuhan South China.

As part of the crown disease epidemic, the Chinese People's Congress issued a permanent ban on terrestrial wildlife transactions and consumption at the end of February.However, although China has already had endangered protection measures, the public security at the end of September last year, 10,000 birds found in a warehouse outside Beijing City had the trace of yellow breasts.At that time, they were waiting for restaurants shipped to South China as high -priced treasures on the menu.

Therefore, the current question is whether the new ban can work.It is an absolutely correct approach to the Chinese government's prohibiting living wildlife transactions, because we already know that they will pass new diseases to humans.The coronary virus in 2019 may originate from bats (may also come from smuggling pangolins). From 2002 to 2003, the Shance epidemic may also be spread to humans because of another coronary virus (SARS-COV).

Some people think that for a country with deep and ingrained ate culture, it seems that the consumption of wild terrestrial animals is too harsh.But in fact, the ban is exactly consistent with the current Chinese social norms.Contrary to the common views of the West, many latest surveys show that most Chinese do not eat spessy and actually do not agree with this behavior.Especially the younger generation of Chinese people have paid more and more attention to animal welfare.

Nevertheless, new laws may still create a sense of accomplishment, which affects the follow -up measures for ending wildlife trafficking.After all, in 2015, Guangzhou had banned sales of live poultry, but the effect was limited.Similarly, despite the prohibition of legislation many years ago, the sales and consumption behaviors of endangered species still exist.In December 2019, Zhejiang Customs seized more than 10,000 kilograms of pangolin scales; at the same time, it was found that the same criminal gang also smuggled 12,500 kilograms of pangolin scales in the last year.

It seems that only a small group of people like to eat game, but if there is no need, the poacher will not risk introduction and distribute them.Most of the demand comes from traditional medicinal materials trade.When I went to Yunnan Province in southwestern China for research and inspection, we visited the manager of a Chinese medicine shop.He proudly told us that he can provide legendary tiger whip soup with aphrodisiac effect.Other widespread superstitions, including eating fish, can make you good at swimming, and owl meat to improve your vision.

One of the authors (Wang Yingyi) in this article in detail in his 2019 works, the criminal network that cater to this taste is in China and abroad, and many provinces in the country are wrong.Due to poor law enforcement, their illegal odor purchases and trafficking risks are low and their income is high.

However, crown diseases have given the Chinese government an opportunity to truly solve this problem.The Chinese government should use the voices of global bannings markets and wildlife transactions to list animal welfare as policy priorities.It must strengthen law enforcement, especially endangered species transactions.As we all know, the legal ban is effective only when the supporting mechanism is implemented.

Fortunately, most Chinese people support wildlife consumption ban.In order to ensure that other parts of the society are also involved, social celebrities and national media should be used to break the fallacy and superstition about eating spectacles.These myths may not have many believers, but they have affected enough people to promote the needs of odors and create conditions for global disasters.

Author Federico Varese is a professor of crime at Oxford University. He is a gangster life: love, death, and money at the core of organizational crime (Mafia Life: Love, Death, and Money at the Heart of Organized Crime).Wang Yingyi is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of China ’s illegal wildlife trade: The ILlegal Wildlife Trade in China: UndersTanding the Distribution Networks).

English Title: Will China Wildlife-Consumpting Ban Work?