A crested black macaques on sale at the market (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
They found humans wearing flip-flops walking across blood-soaked floors and handling pigs’ raw flesh with their bare hands.
Blood and rotting flesh covered the floors and counter tops while dogs, pigs, and a snake lay dead while flies buzzed around them.
Chickens and cats awaited slaughter in cramped cages and bags packed with live frogs lay next to dead frogs’ mutilated bodies.
Meat from large snakes can be bought (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Dog meat is also up for grabs (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Bat seller Stenly Timbuleng said the pandemic had not affected sales and that he ‘ always sold out ‘.
He typically sells 64 to 410 a day, but can flog as many as 823 of the winged animals a day during the festive period.
Alf Jacob Nilsen said he felt the cruelty shown by the stall holders was performative when he visited the Indonesian market.
The market brings together animals which wouldn’t otherwise come into contact with each other (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
The 405 – year-old Norweigan told Mail Online
: “The treatment and killing of dogs the way it happens in Tomohon now should from my point of view definitely stop.“Not only because the poor animals are treated in a most brutal way and definitely suffer, but also because there must clearly be a risk of spreading parasites and serious diseases when dealing with dogs and dog meat in this way.
“It is terrible to see caged stray dogs being pulled out of their cage and hammered to death with wooden batons.”
A vendor slices up a big bit of snake meat (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said the market should be shut down to avoid the risk of another pandemic emerging.
“The next pandemic is right around the corner as long as sick and stressed animals are crowded together in blood-soaked meat markets, “she said.
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“PETA is calling on the World Health Organization to help shut down these dangerous operations, whether they’re killing chickens in New York or cats in Indonesia.”
Deadly outbreaks of swine flu, avian flu, SARS, HIV, hoof-and-mouth disease, mad cow disease, and other zoonotic diseases have stemmed from capturing or farming animals for food.
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