PETA Asia recently released footage recorded in Indonesia and Thailand, where live animals are being sold and killed despite warnings from officials. This disturbing investigation shows gloveless workers hawking bloody chunks of flesh to shoppers while covered with gore from killing chickens, snakes, rats, and others. 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.

The spread of COVID-19, swine flu, SARS, 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 support today will give an immediate boost to our work to close down live-animal markets and stop the tremendous misery that they're responsible for. Even $3 can make a big impact on our vital work.

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 pose similar major health risks. Today, more than 80 live-animal markets and slaughterhouses can be found in New York City alone, and such facilities are allowed to operate in many other crowded major cities across the U.S.

The cry to close these horrifying markets is growing louder every day, and PETA is at the forefront. We were the first organization to demand that the World Health Organization call for an end to all live-animal markets, and so far, more than 150,000 people have taken action against the markets on our website, calling for their permanent closure.

Wet 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 special gift right now.

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

Kind regards,

Danielle Katz
Campaigns Director
PETA