A Thai blogger is facing five years in jail after videoing herself eating a whole bat in a bowl of soup.
Phonchanok Srisunaklua had uploaded the 1 minute 40 second clip to her YouTube channel.
Describing the bats as being ‘delicious’ and comparing them to ‘eating raw meat,’ she is then seen ripping the animals apart and dipping them in a spicy sauce called Nim Jam.
At one point the footage shows the food content creator holding up a whole bat to the camera and declaring ‘it has teeth’ before beginning to crunch on the bones and saying ‘the bones are soft’.
The video has outraged many viewers as they raised fears over health implications.
One said: ‘If you’re going to die, die alone. No one will blame you. But you’ll be damned if you start a pandemic.’
