It's important to note (I could be wrong, but from what I gather) that this market was in a northeastern part of India, a place that borders China. These wet markets are heavily influenced by Chinese customs therefore have these generally non-palatable stuff on sale. As I understand other Indian markets don't cell rats and dogs and whatever the hell those hands are.

Other farmer markets in India are not like these, they sell fish etc but never live dogs etc. In fact that would gross most of the Indians out. You need to acknowledge that this is really more of a Chinese custom than Indian. The border regions are also always in turmoil with China trying to claim more Indian land, because they see these people as their own kind in their grand One China vision.

Also, this is an article on mirror.uk, the worst racist newspaper of the UK. Gotta be careful when you read stuff from there. Have a look at the comment section - such blatant racist comments, such vile insults, all given out without even understanding the whole picture correctly. It's an article written to appeal to these kind of filthy people. I hope people here will not devolve in that kind of BS.

That being said I've seen some articles about Indian scientists researching bats and wet markets to understand their potential in new emerging diseases, so I think they do worry about it. In fact, I think, those studies were first shutdown after the covid thing started due to a knee-jerk reaction by their govt. I don't know what's happened to it now.