South Korea's popular wildlife coffee shop will be completely closed! How is the hygiene of the pet coffee shop?

South Korea's Ministry of Environment announced on January 13 that in order to safeguard animal well-being (a principle for safeguarding all animals, including farm animals, experimental animals, companion animals, work animals, recreational animals and wild animals), there will be a total ban on the display of wild animals outside zoos, including private businesses such as wildlife cafes that have become popular in South Korea in recent years, the Seoul News reported.

If the bill is passed, the cafes will be closed after a three-to four-year grace period, and animals will be sent to South Korea's national ecological parks, zoos and other places for protection.

As coffee shops with daily / domestic animals such as cats, dogs, pigs, ducks and ducks can no longer meet consumers' pursuit of new things, special animal-themed cafes / restaurants have become popular in South Korea, Japan, China, Thailand and other countries in recent years. Raccoons, hedgehogs, alpacas, owls, otters, lizards and so on have become the "employees" of this type of restaurants.

In these places, guests can watch and touch all kinds of small animals. But from an ecological point of view, such an indoor environment will have a great negative impact on the animals themselves. Because there is little room for activity and no shelter in the narrow space of long-term life, it is difficult for animals to avoid the guests who haunt them. Every day, they are "ravaged" by all kinds of guests, and even bedtime is forced to "open for business". The physical and mental health of many animals are seriously affected, such as obesity, malnutrition, lack of sleep, bad temper, depression and so on.

At the same time, because guests live in the same room with animals, and the dining environment is mixed with the environment where animals live, the sanitary conditions of some places have also been criticized. Many consumers who have visited said that these stores have a strong smell of animals, eat and drink more or less stained with animal hair, animals will also jump on the table to grab food. Basically, if you've been there once, you won't go there again.

In addition to hygiene problems, many people ignore the character and habits of animals because of their cute appearance, and consumer places do not prohibit some behavior. as a result, there are frequent incidents of animal injury / assault in animal restaurants. The "employees" of these animals will also be neglected by breeders and, in serious cases, mistreat the animals themselves.

Earlier, Taiwanese media reported that the owner of an animal cafe in Taipei had accused the owner of abusing raccoons in the store. Some consumers complained to the animal protection organization that the coffee shop owner was raccoon, and then a former employee provided a video of the boss showing the dog biting the raccoon. The comment area is full of abuse. Afterwards, the owner of the coffee shop issued an apology that the abused raccoon had been taken care of by the Taipei Animal Protection Center, and the boss explained the allegations of animal cruelty like this: misunderstanding caused by lack of experience in raising raccoons and unfamiliarity with raccoon habits. (? ), and said that raccoons will not be raised in the future.

In addition to these exposed evils, simply keeping animals living in the wild in an unnatural space is a kind of harm to them. After all, no matter how hard you try to transform the environment of ordinary homes or businesses, it is still no better than a zoo, let alone its wild habitat.

Apart from the problems with the operators themselves, should consumers also reflect on themselves? If you don't go, how can there be a market?

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