{"id":103778,"date":"2020-03-14T19:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T02:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/expert-chinese-scientists-sell-lab-animals-as-meat-on-the-black-market"},"modified":"2020-03-14T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T02:22:33","slug":"expert-chinese-scientists-sell-lab-animals-as-meat-on-the-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/expert-chinese-scientists-sell-lab-animals-as-meat-on-the-black-market","title":{"rendered":"Expert: Chinese Scientists Sell Lab Animals as Meat on the Black Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/expert-chinese-scientists-sell-lab-animals-as-meat-on-the-black-market.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pop.org\/\">Population Research Institute<\/a> President Steven W. Mosher <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/22\/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab\/\">wrote<\/a> at the <i>New York Post<\/i> on Saturday that China\u2019s coronavirus epidemic could have been unleashed by researchers who sold laboratory animals to the notorious \u201cwet markets\u201d of Wuhan for extra cash.<\/p>\n<p>Mosher is not the first skeptic of Beijing\u2019s official coronavirus narrative to note the presence of an advanced microbiology lab near Wuhan, the city where the epidemic originated. Since the early days of the crisis, theories have suggested everything from the lab accidentally releasing the virus to speculation that the virus might have been deliberately designed as a biological weapon.<\/p>\n<p>His theory cited as evidence the release of new guidelines from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology calling for \u201cstrengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population Research Institute President Steven W. Mosher wrote at the New York Post on Saturday that China\u2019s coronavirus epidemic could have been unleashed by researchers who sold laboratory animals to the notorious \u201cwet markets\u201d of Wuhan for extra cash. Mosher is not the first skeptic of Beijing\u2019s official coronavirus narrative to note the presence of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}