From COVID-19 to Ebola and bird flu, the filthy live-animal markets where animals
are abused and violently killed for their flesh are breeding grounds for the
deadliest diseases to hit the globe this century—and now legislators are joining
leading health officials in recognizing the danger.

Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of 66 legislators—including senators Cory
Booker and Lindsey Graham—signed on to a letter to the World Health Organization
(WHO) asking it to take action against wet markets weeks after PETA petitioned
WHO to call for their closure. Legislators in New York and California are now
working to enact bans on live markets in their states as well.

PETA is determined to shut down live-animal markets—both in the U.S. and
worldwide—and we need you with us. Please make a special gift right now to keep
this and all of our vital work for animals going strong.

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Dear Friend,

Terrified cats huddle together in a filthy cage, forced to wait for someone to
buy them for slaughter.

Live frogs are piled on top of each other in bags next to the mutilated bodies
of those killed before them.

Chickens with open wounds are bound tightly together. They cry out while
watching the blood of birds and other animals pool on the floor below them.

Nearly a month after the pandemic introduced the term "wet market" to much of
the world, live-animal markets like the one in China where the novel coronavirus
is thought to have originated are still operating—both in the U.S. and around
the world. That's why we must take action NOW before the next deadly disease has a chance
to take root.

Please, help keep PETA's work to close live-animal markets and stop the
suffering of animals used for their flesh going strong by making a special gift
of $3 or more today.

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This week, PETA Asia released footage shot days ago inside the grisly markets in
Indonesia and Thailand where live animals are still being sold and killed
despite warnings from officials. This disturbing new investigation shows
gloveless live-animal market workers hawking bloody chunks of animals to
shoppers while covered with the gore of the chickens, snakes, rats, and other
animals they killed. Flies can be seen swarming around the bodies of dead pigs
and other animals, and streaks of blood from gutted fish and slaughtered animals
cover countertops and floors.

Nearly 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originated in other
animals, but they aren't the ones to blame for the outbreaks—humans are. The
spread of COVID-19, swine flu, SARS, Ebola, and many other dangerous infectious
diseases can often be traced to wet markets, filthy factory farms, and other
breeding grounds for pathogens where animals are abused and killed to satisfy
the world's meat habit.

Your generous support today will give an immediate boost to our work to close
down live-animal markets and stop the tremendous suffering that they're
responsible for. As little as $3 can make a big impact on our vital work.

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Wet markets aren't a problem that's limited to China, Thailand, or other Asian
countries—there are disease-ridden facilities right here in the U.S. that
officials at the highest levels have warned pose similar major health risks.
Today, more than 80 live-animal markets and slaughterhouses can be found in New
York City alone, and they're allowed to operate in many other crowded major
cities, like Los Angeles, too.

Thanks to the determination of PETA supporters around the world, the cry to
close these horrifying markets is growing louder every day. PETA was the first
organization to demand that the World Health Organization call for an end to all
live-animal markets, and earlier this week, a bipartisan group of 60 legislators
made a similar request. More than 120,000 people have now taken action against
wet markets on our website, and they were joined on Friday by The Sopranos and
Tommy actor, New Yorker, and Honorary PETA Director Edie Falco, who wrote a powerful
letter to New York's mayor calling for the permanent closure of all live-animal
markets in the city in order to help prevent other deadly viruses from jumping
to humans.

Such markets put humans at risk and sentence animals to a miserable death.
Please help us do even more to shut them down by making a much-needed gift
right now.

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For humans—and all animals—there's simply no time to lose.

Kind regards,

Danielle Katz
Campaigns Director
PETA
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