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About two million American bullfrogs are imported live to the U.S. from factory farms abroad each year to be eaten. PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN E. KOLBY
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Millions of live animals enter the U.S. each year without disease screening—leaving us vulnerable to another outbreak, a former wildlife inspector says...Twenty thousand live bullfrogs from China that will be cooked and eaten as frog legs. Forty green monkeys from St. Kitts and Nevis for biomedical research. Three hundred giant clams from Vietnam and 30 stingrays from the Brazilian Amazon for home aquariums. That motley assortment is a miniscule glimpse of what the legal international wildlife trade might look like on a given day...

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