Disturbing new footage has emerged of wet markets in Asia continuing to sell live and dead animals including butchered dogs and pig brains, despite widespread beliefs that the coronavirus pandemic started in one.
Video shared by animal rights group PETA captures the harrowing scenes of markets in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Thailand where vendors are still selling wildlife animals to the public.
Virus-carrying animals such as bats and civet cats are locked up in filthy cages and displayed on roadsides as scooters drive past.
Monkeys are seen shrieking for help and jumping in distress while being locked up in a stack of tiny metal cages. Domestic pets like cats and rabbits have also fallen victim to the