60 minutes Australia went undercover to an illegal Bangkok wet market

[tifino]

5 minutes ago, fruitman said:

I've seen a video on youtube made in SE-Asia where they put a monkey under a table with a hole in the middle...with an axe they chop the top part of the skull of the monkey and they eat the warm brains out of the skull.....

 

I'm not gonna search for it but it's on youtube.

(Indiana Jones and the... )

[Tayaout]

3 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Are you referring to the scene in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0077533/

[ravip]

59 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

I consider this planet a living being , everything on it is connected , every action provokes a reaction .

That reaction is the virus .

We are living on this planet , but we are not respecting it's biosphere and ecosystem .

 

Absolutely correct!

But... we are so developed, intelligent, etc. we humans now degrade our own kind to prop ourself higher... A pandemic like this, which respect no status - rich or poor, black or white, developed or not, intelligent or not is a good elixer to open the foggy eyes of us, humans!

Add

Or would it?

[Tayaout]

https://www.culinaryschools.org/blog/raw-monkey-brains/

[tifino]

1 minute ago, Yinn said:

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Google say Aussies eat wild kangaroo, wild crocodile, wild emu, wild pig, wild goat, wild camel. 

 

The reporter liar and idiot.

Buff' Burgers; Croc' Burgers etc have been a Darwin speciality since early 80s  

 

the Camels were probably historic reference, to the original Afghan riders here

 

Wild pigs, in Aust, are not at the same scary level as Asian Jungle ones...

 

Generally the bit about 'the Aussies' were aborigines - again traditional kills for food

[UbonThani]

5 minutes ago, Yinn said:

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Google say Aussies eat wild kangaroo, wild crocodile, wild emu, wild pig, wild goat, wild camel. 

 

The reporter liar and idiot.

True. Croc is yummy. Half fish half chicken taste.

 

Wild pig or boar is great in Thailand.

 

60 mins is junk tv. They try to scare people. Even ex reporters from the 80s laugh at it. George Negus was the last credible journo on it

 

[Shammy]

15 hours ago, MK1 said:

Someone must be fuming that computer crimes act defying investigative journalist’s had parachuted into Thailand and departed without anyone knowing.

 

Need to send in the BMW smart car!!

[Grumpy John]

20 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Yeah they are not much different from the Chinese places, but they pretend they have animal protection laws ???? walk round any market to see a food health and safety nightmare, offal, pigs head covered in flies, ducks hung up next to fish splashing about half dead, people prodding prawns then going on to prod pig spine etc sickening.

If you eat out in Thailand your meat or fish came from one such market. 

[Grumpy John]

51 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Maybe I do Aborigine first one.

Is that your way of saying the lazy welfare dependent parasites go first? 

[Moonlover]

I stopped watching when the news caster said there could be as many as 45 million deaths.

 

Unless my mathematical skills have totally eluded me, I make that to be 0.58% of the world's population. And according to many comments on this issue, the deaths will be mainly amongst the elderly and/or those with existing health issues.

 

And incidentally, the UN reckon that there 130 million births every year.

 

So what's the problem?

 

[Tayaout]

1 minute ago, Moonlover said:

So what's the problem?

If you have car accident or a heart attack the hospital might be already full. 

[wotsdermatter]

According to the WHO and other international institutions, the level of the outbreak is not yet at pandemic level as this reporter asserted.  While the video concentrated of so-called "wet" markets and the slaughter and sale of a great variety of animals, the truth of the origin and spread of the virus is till unknown.  However, many people have asserted the "truth" about how, when, who, and how this variety of coronavirus originated, etc., and even this video showed scenes that people will believe are the truth.  A lot of governments have spread myths and general population believe them without even attempting to determine if they are true.  A prime example is the Thai government with their changing stories about masks, the forthcoming heat destroying the virus, etc., and so it goes on.  Incidentally, it has now been shown that the use of gels to clean hands, etc., is nowhere near as effective as good old soap and water to clean the body or surfaces.  Rant over.

'nuf sed.

[Traubert]

17 hours ago, Admiral Hornblower said:

Look at the video closely, all the written wording is Chinese not Thai including the hospital and wet market. Final images are of Hong Kong. This is not Bangkok!

 

Nice try......

[Moonlover]

4 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

If you have car accident or a heart attack the hospital might be already full. 

I'm sure they'll find room for a paying guest.

[Hank Gunn]

17 hours ago, Tayaout said:

17 hours ago, Admiral Hornblower said:

Look at the video closely, all the written wording is Chinese not Thai including the hospital and wet market. Final images are of Hong Kong. This is not Bangkok!

 

Some of the footages are from Chattuchak/Bangkok, Wuhan and maybe Hong Kong?

 

The only thing that I find misleading is the part in Bangkok. They show what looks like exotic pet shop but they present it like they are sold for meat. It's not really comparable to Chinese wet market where they butcher the animals on site. I've seen plenty of wet market in Thailand and they seem to offer less exotic animal and don't usually butcher the meat on site. 

I saw a "No Photos" sign in Thai.

 

Others have mentioned that this market is most likely for pets and not for animals as food consumption. The problem with that is, the spread of the virus across species is not due to ingestion of the animal's meat, but through contact with the live animals. By having species that normally wouldn't come in physical contact in the wild in such close proximity, and touched/handled by shopkeepers who handle multiple and varied species, you introduce the possibility of these cross-species infections with the last species in the chain being the human shopkeepers and customers.

 

In the case of Covid-19, genetic markers trace the origin of the virus back to bats but the vector species is believed to be pangolins.

[FarFlungFalang]

31 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Is that your way of saying the lazy welfare dependent parasites go first? 

Bit jealous are we?We don't legally own the place so we get a bit nasty.

[fruitman]

57 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Are you referring to the scene in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?

I'm not into movies so i don't know...but what i saw was somewhere in SE-Asia where eating monkey brains from a living monkey is a speciality.

[HaleySabai]

3 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

This is gutter sensationalist journalism at its best, 60 minutes has this clip up on youtube as "the market where covid started". They go to the market in BKK which is basically a pet shop (some illegal animals) and try and make out its a food market.

I agree!.... at 2:23 he says "possibly the greatest pandemic the world has ever seen".....Covid-19 is still on its knees compared to the long distant runner the Spanish-flu virus in 1918 became.

Not to down play the situation,but I find it sickening to see how quickly everything becomes commercialized. No sooner we see irrational fear take hold of governments,societies,stock markets et.... a bank refusing foreign currency because of Covid-19 is the epitome of irrational fear.

[emptypockets]

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

It would appear then that all Strailians (sic) are misguided.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pom

The truth is that nobody really knows. Some say it is POME  (colloquially now called Pommie) from the term Prisoner Of Mother England.

Soap dodger encompasses all probabilities. 555

[emptypockets]

2 hours ago, tifino said:

 never has been...   Visa Exempt

Visa waiver scheme. Not in arrival, not exempt.

[emptypockets]

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Yes why he lie? 

The guy say “they can do what they like” about the animal. = try to make the viewer person think the thai will eat it. 

 

Same in Australia you can buy a pet at a pet shop and eat it. But who do that?

Stupid report. 

 

And complain animal from different country in the same pet shop. Australia pet shop only have kangaroo and koala? Or have dog, cat, rabbit, rat from the world.

pfffft.

 

i think only TVF have member lie about thailand. But Australia TV same right.

 

* I not like keep wild animal for pet. But every country SOME people do that. Usually the man. I hate it.

But this story just the fake thaibash story. Exaggerate. Stupid.

 

i think the reporter to scared go to real wet market in China. Just want easy work holiday to Thailand. 

Pfffft

 

Dramatic headline “Reporter goes undercover to wet market” 

True headline “Reporter go undercover to pet shop”

 

pffffft

You'll never see a roo or a koala in a pet shop on Australia. 

[mickyr55]

3 hours ago, heybuz said:

The poms lament,and the ale is not proper ale.

And don't even think about getting a Pork Pie ????????

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, nobodysfriend said:

You mean like the Lemmings who are famous for jumping over a cliff to their dead when their population becomes to big ?

This Virus looks to me like a reaction of a living being to a parasite ( dog and ticks ...) , but it is a very clean way to get rid of the only species on this planet that is capable of unbalancing the whole ecosystem , humans .

Except, of course, lemmings don't do that. Only in one very old set up scene in a movie. Disney I think it was.

[Logosone]

18 hours ago, Tayaout said:

There is great grass fed beef from Tasmania. Not sure about the bacon. 

 

 

The corn fed Australian beef is also not bad.  Argentinian and Irish is still better, from personal experience.

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

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Google say Aussies eat wild kangaroo, wild crocodile, wild emu, wild pig, wild goat, wild camel. 

 

The reporter liar and idiot.

Some people do. I have eaten most of those in your list, but only farmed croc. All cooked in a wok by an Asian chef. Delicious.

Wild crocs are protected so unlikely to make to your dinner table.

Pigs and roo might be eaten frequently if you live in the bush, but the great majority of Australians probably haven't even seen any of the animals you mention in the wild, let alone eaten then. 

You left wild donkey off your list. Good eating and very low cholesterol.

And wild deer. Very nice if you manage to hunt one down. Tricky buggers.

[Logosone]

According to the Chinese donkey penis is also good for virility.

 

Maybe this is why Australians are so virile?

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, tifino said:

Buff' Burgers; Croc' Burgers etc have been a Darwin speciality since early 80s  

 

the Camels were probably historic reference, to the original Afghan riders here

 

Wild pigs, in Aust, are not at the same scary level as Asian Jungle ones...

 

Generally the bit about 'the Aussies' were aborigines - again traditional kills for food

I guess you've never been pig hunting. In North Queensland. Plenty of jungle there, and plenty of pigs.

A 100 kg boar is scary no matter what country it's in, as a few dogs have found out when they have had their guts ripped open.

Australia exports camels to the middle east to replenish bloodlines. Aussie camels are the only animals still considered free from the effects of inbreeding by the Saudis. Big money in this.

[Olmate]

12 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Some people do. I have eaten most of those in your list, but only farmed croc. All cooked in a wok by an Asian chef. Delicious.

Wild crocs are protected so unlikely to make to your dinner table.

Pigs and roo might be eaten frequently if you live in the bush, but the great majority of Australians probably haven't even seen any of the animals you mention in the wild, let alone eaten then. 

You left wild donkey off your list. Good eating and very low cholesterol.

Don,t forget the “four n twenty black birds”.... maybe China chose bats instead of crows!!

[Skallywag]

1 hour ago, ravip said:

 A pandemic like this, which respect no status 

 

Just so you know, the WHO and CDC has not labelled Covid19 a "pandemic" yet.

Less than 200 deaths worldwide (outside of China, Iran, and Italy)

It is of course a major health concern, but of little concern if you are under 60 years old.

Again, flus and viral pneumonia from flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year. 

A few thousand deaths in China and several hundred in Iran and Italy do not make a pandemic 

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=208914

 

 

[0zr0cks]

19 hours ago, Ian Nagle said:

You can't even get a decent sausage in Australia, and their bacon is fat and water. 

Whoa up there fella! You’re clearly an Aussie basher and have a degree in BS.