Markets in Thailand serve as an attraction to tourists, where everyone focuses on buying souvenirs from their travels. It is also a place where local community does their daily groceries. Unusual food products that are perfectly normal for the locals, arouse interest of tourists.
Markets are provided with all kinds of animal species for human consumption. The slaughter often takes place on the back of stalls without any kind of control, not to even mention humanitary slaughter. Fish are kept there without a water, frogs are killed without being stunned, chickens are kept in small cages or in wicker baskets, roosters are forced to lay there with their legs tied up. Everything on the market serve as an attraction to tourists, nobody even thinks about animal cruelty…
At the entrance of the markets, which are considered as more exclusive, there are signs that inform us you won’t be able to buy there any wild and endangered animals’ species. However when you pass the alleyways with the clothes, in the zoological section you will find racial cats, dogs, monkeys, small crocodiles, parrots, turtles, exotic mammals that are mentioned on the lists of endangered species. They are treated and sold like plush toys…
