"Eliminate the habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals."
Here are 10 words that you've probably seen and heard a lot in recent times.
On February 27, this phrase was mentioned again on at least two occasions.
The first was the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council in the afternoon of the same day.
Relevant departments said that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs is consulting with the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, in line with the principle of eliminating the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals, ensuring the health and safety of the people, and ensuring the safety of aquatic products supply, adjusting and improving the relevant catalogues and supporting regulations, and further clarifying the scope of fasting.
Another time was at the epidemic prevention and control press briefing in Guangzhou, and Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said this-
Note the last paragraph: eating wild animals is inherently a bad habit of humans. Let us not forget that there have been three coronavirus infections in the 21st century, the first being SARS, the second being MERS, and the third being the coronavirus this time.
Nothing more than three.
What Xiao Rui wants to say is that in the face of three epidemics in 20 years, some people who are proud of eating wild animals are time to control their gluttonous mouths.
One of the differences between humans and animals is that they do something and don't. In order to persuade people not to eat wild meat, some people moved with affection: bitterly saying that "wild meat is not 'Tang monk meat'". The state has also introduced regulations: the "Decision on Comprehensively Banning illegal wildlife trade, eliminating the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals, and effectively protecting the people's life, health and safety" issued on the 24th was voted and passed by the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress and came into effect immediately.
Earlier, on February 16, an important article by China's top leaders published in the fourth issue of Qiushi magazine this year also clearly mentioned that the wild game industry "can no longer be indifferent"!
The signal was clear: the act of trading and eating wild game had alarmed the highest levels.
It is advisable to revisit the original text of some of the leaders' speeches -
We have long recognized that the risk of eating wild animals is very large, but the "wild game industry" is still large in scale, posing a major hidden danger to public health security. You can't be indifferent anymore! I have already given instructions on this issue. Relevant departments should strengthen the implementation of laws, strengthen market supervision, resolutely ban and severely crack down on illegal wildlife markets and trade, resolutely eliminate the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals, and control major public health risks from the source.
In particular, Xiao Rui noted that this passage appeared in the part of the text that mentioned "improving the ability and level of national governance". It can be seen that the prohibition of illegal wildlife trade and the elimination of the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals have been raised to a higher level.
To be fair, there's nothing wrong with liking good food, but what to eat and what not to eat really needs to be a little bit of a thing in your heart. Although whether the new crown virus comes from wild animals still needs scientific research, as Academician Zhong Nanshan said, it is an indisputable fact that most infectious diseases have come from animals for decades.
In the face of the price of fresh lives, even if there are many grand excuses for the indiscriminate eating of wild animals, it is not only a lack of reverence for life, but also a need to accept the severe punishment of the law.
Keep your mouth shut, and it's not just limited to wild animals.
At the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council on the 27th, it was said that all wild animals that were not included in the genetic catalogue of livestock and poultry were prohibited from eating, "whether it is a wild animal under key protection or not."
This reminds Xiao Rui of another phenomenon.
For some time, "foodies" on the Chinese Internet have been very keen to "save" the creatures that flood the world. Whether it is the crayfish that dominate the streets in the Netherlands or the Asian carp in the United States, the comments behind it are almost all "let the Chinese eat, it will definitely give you to eat as a protective animal".
Although it may be just a joke, crayfish, carp, etc. are not wild game, but this kind of joke with a little pride, is it really good? In the past two days, African locusts have been raging, and just when experts analyzed whether it would affect China, a similar voice did appear: "Let Chinese foodies cure the locust plague."
This is a photograph of locusts on a farm in Kitui, Kenya, on Feb. 20. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yu
As one netizen said, this kind of speech reveals the pride of "you are all fools, only I will eat", but in fact, it is not necessarily a decent thing. And in Xiao Rui's view, the vanity behind this kind of remark is not much different from those who eat wild game.
I remember that when SARS just ended, civets were killed everywhere, because they thought that civets were the host of the SARS virus, but they may ignore the fact that animals did not have original sin, and it was humans who could not control their mouths that indiscriminately ate wild animals, which caused a public health crisis.
Now that the virus is raging again, the cruelty of nature has once again made us feel the pain of the skin. Regardless of the source of the coronavirus, it is indeed urgent to ban wild game.
One cannot step into the same river twice. Unfortunately, in the first 20 years of this century, humanity has stepped into the same river for the third time.
It's just a matter of time, it's really time for a long snack.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Text Editor: Song Yanlin Caption Source: Xinhua News Agency Photo Editor: Zhu Xuan