Editor

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, we must not forget that the source of this outbreak has been traced back to animal abuse and exploitation at the Wuhan ‘wet’ market in China, where dead and living animals are simultaneously sold for human consumption and to supply the vile trade in animal body parts used in traditional medicine.

Such markets, which sadly are found throughout the world, are breeding grounds for disease as terrified and often injured animals are contaminated by the bodily fluids of those in cages stacked above.

Many of these desperate animals are slaughtered on site (where further risk of contamination occurs ) in a barbaric fashion where they suffer unimaginable pain and fear.

Such injustice, abuse and exploitation of animals will always have consequences and the current Covid-19 outbreak is evidence of this.

Whilst I am relieved that China has temporarily closed its disgusting animal markets, a permanent ban is called for, in China and throughout the world, to prevent a similar global crisis in the future.

Rebecca Bell

New Quay

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