Halt of wildlife dining needs time
( 2003-08-05 14:10) (China Daily)
Most of the province's market stalls trading in
wildlife have been vacated since Guangdong passed a law against consuming the
meat of animals that are "State-protected, prone to transmit diseases or not
checked by the quarantine authority", reports China News Service.
Aside from chicken, duck and goose, the remaining stalls sell only
farm-raised partridge, ostrich, snake and other creatures.
But restaurants offering wildlife cuisine can still be found, and taxi
drivers can usually inform their customers of the locations.
"It will be a long, hard to process to get the entire public to stop eating
wildlife," admitted Wang Xudong, an official with the Guangdong Provincial
Congress.
The congress passed the Guangdong Patriotic Sanitation Work Regulations,
which contain the clause prohibiting consumption of wildlife, on July
25.
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