On the 24th, the 16th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to pass the decision on completely banning illegal wildlife trade, eliminating the bad habit of indiscriminately eating wild animals, and effectively protecting the people's life, health and safety. The decision shall take effect on the date of promulgation.
How does the decision impose a total ban on the consumption of wild animals, and which wild animals cannot be eaten? Can't trade?
Q: Zhejiang people like to eat East Sea seafood such as striped fish and yellow croaker, can you eat it?
A: Fishing for natural fishery resources such as fish is an important agricultural production method and an international practice, and the Fisheries Law has regulated this, according to the decision, fish and other aquatic wild animals are not included in the scope of prohibition. East Seafood such as striped fish and yellow croaker is a wild animal, but it is not a terrestrial wild animal and is not among them, so you can eat it with confidence.
Q: Can domesticated wild animals such as chipmunks, hamsters, and muskrats be eaten?
A: The consumption of wild animals that are expressly prohibited by the Wildlife Protection Law may not be eaten.
Q: Bullfrogs are also listed on the fasting list?
A: The relevant departments have not yet released the relevant fasting list.
Q: Can wild boar and sika deer eat it?
Q: Are pigs, cattle, sheep and other domestic animals prohibited?
A: The more common livestock and poultry, such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc., are mainly animals for consumption, and can be eaten in accordance with laws and regulations such as the Animal Husbandry Law and the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law.
Q: Are artificially bred animals such as rabbits and pigeons also prohibited?
Answer: Rabbits, pigeons and other artificial breeding has been used for a long time, the technology is mature, the people have been widely accepted, the output value and practitioners formed have a certain scale, and some play an important role in poverty alleviation. In accordance with the provisions of the "Decision", these animals included in the "Inventory of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources" stipulated in the Animal Husbandry Law also belong to livestock and poultry, and their breeding and utilization, including food, etc., shall be managed in accordance with the provisions of the Animal Husbandry Law and strictly quarantined.
Q: Which wild animals can no longer be eaten?
A: The decision points out that the Wildlife Protection Law and other relevant laws explicitly prohibit the consumption of wild animals, which must be strictly prohibited. It is completely prohibited to eat "terrestrial wild animals with important ecological, scientific and social value" protected by the state and other terrestrial wild animals, including artificially bred and artificially raised terrestrial wild animals.
In fact, as long as you remember one sentence, all terrestrial wild animals cannot be eaten, nor can they be artificially raised, except for livestock and poultry.
Q: What should I do if the aquaculture industry chain is affected?
A: The decision may affect the relevant industrial chain, considering that it will indeed have a greater impact on farmers in some mountainous and remote areas, and some places may use it as an industry for precise poverty alleviation, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress requires local governments to strengthen guidance, give certain economic compensation, and assist in transformation or adjustment. It is worth noting that if it is the purpose of scientific research, pharmaceuticals, and display, after strict approval, it can still be artificially bred, and others are prohibited.
Q: If the animal is not on the Wildlife Protection List, can it be eaten?
A: Even if the animal is not on the Wildlife Protection List, if a person wants to eat it, he must go through the necessary quarantine procedures and meet the prescribed standards before entering the market for sale, purchase and consumption.
Q: How is the underground trade in wild animals prohibited? If it is a wild animal caught by yourself, will it be punished?
A: For wildlife trade, which may go underground, it is now a whole-process crackdown, and it is a severe punishment, and the cost of breaking the law is extremely high, which will greatly curb the spread and development of the underground market. Even if you catch it yourself, if you are found and cannot explain the source, you will be punished.
Q: What are the penalties for illegally trafficking, breeding, transporting and eating wild animals?
A: The decision stipulates that the illegal consumption and trade of wild animals shall be severely punished, and the punishment shall be increased on the basis of the existing legal provisions for those who hunt, trade, transport or eat wild animals in violation of the Wildlife Protection Law and other relevant laws and regulations. Illegal business sites and illegal business operators shall be banned, sealed or closed down in accordance with law.
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The reporter learned from the relevant state departments that there are about 54 kinds of domesticated and breeding wild animals that cannot be eaten and are currently undergoing commercial operation and utilization (the final list published by the relevant departments shall prevail). Of these, 13 were explicitly defined as "viewing only" as early as 2003.
These inedible terrestrial wild animals are classified according to the "class":
There are 14 species of "theropods", raccoons, silver foxes, arctic foxes, mink, civets, wild boar, sika deer, red deer, chipmunks, hamsters, muskrats, woolly chinchillas, guinea pigs, and beaver rats.
There are 25 species of "ornithopods", such as African ostrich, great American ostrich, emu, warty-nosed duck, green-headed duck, ring-necked pheasant, turkey, beaded chicken, stone chicken, blue peacock, blue-breasted quail, quail, cockrot, cockroach, cockroach, duck-tailed parrot, finch parrot, peach-faced peony parrot, yellow-collared peony parrot, white-loined bird, black-throated grass finch, colorful literary bird, orange-cheeked plum finch, red plum finch, grass finch, chestnut ear grass finch, canary.
There are 6 species of "reptiles", Brazilian turtle, crocodile turtle, Chinese turtle, Nile crocodile, bay crocodile, Siamese crocodile.
There are 4 species of "amphibians", Chinese forest frog, Heilongjiang forest frog, pig frog, tiger striped frog.
"Arachnids" 1 species, scorpions, alias "whole worms".
There are 3 species of "insects", the double-toothed spiny ant, the large black carpenter ant, and the yellow lynx ant.
There is 1 species of "polypoda", centipede, alias "Tianlong".
Column Editor-in-Chief: Wang Haiyan Text Editor: Wang Haiyan