BANGKOK, March 2 (TNA) – The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) confirm that an illegal slaughterhouse raided by the police did not deliver monitor lizard meat to a fish ball factory but the meat was destined for restaurants, serving wildlife meat at the border in Trat province.

 

A Facebook page posted the photos of monitor lizards and a message, saying the police raided a major fish ball factory, using monitor lizard meat to make fish balls and the lizard’s white flesh did not have unpleasant fishy smell. Sun-dried lizard skin was also used to make crispy fried fish skin for sale nationwide.

 

Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1125640

 

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Note to myself: ''don't eat dodgy looking a@#$ beads you find at markets. ".

I have never been able to differentiate between the "varieties" of Thailands over-celebrated, so called, "fish/meat" balls.

 

Hyper-minced, pale, paste balls of offal, bones and skin, with a bit of flavouring appropriate to their alleged origin, is what they seem to be.

 

I'll take coarse minced monitor flesh as an alternative any day.

 

The alleged fish/meat balls, and their torpedo shaped frankfurter style cousins, are "The Kings New Clothes" of Thai cuisine.

 

 

 

moved to Easter Thailand forum

 

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Trat Market Vendors Deny Monitor Lizard Meat Sold There
by TNR Staff 

 

Bo Phloi municipal fresh market. Photo: Thai Rath

 

AFTER two suspects arrested in Suphanburi said the large number of live monitor lizards and carcasses found at their slaughterhouse were to be sent for consumption along Thai-Cambodian border at Trat, vendors at a large border market denied both Thais and Cambodians living in their area consumed such meat, Thai Rath newspaper and Sanook.com said this afternoon (Mar. 2).

 

Upon being questioned the two suspects said monitor lizard meat was sold to vendors at markets along the Thai-Cambodian border in Trat for sale to consumers to cook into various dishes.

 

The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) had also denied they raided a fishball factory mentioned on a social media page with this being a slaughterhouse.

 

Thai Rath’s reporters visited Bo Phloi municipal fresh market in Trat’s Bo Rai district and saw that there was no monitor lizard meat there with chicken, pork, beef and dry goods being sold to shoppers.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/03/02/trat-market-vendors-deny-monitor-lizard-meat-sold-there/

 

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Killing and eating animals is disgusting.