Chinese Tiger Farms
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The horrific cruelty of China's tiger farms revealed – where animals are turned into wine
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT.
China is allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts – flouting a UN agreement which calls for such trade to be banned, according to an environmental lobby group.
Huddled in filthy cages and starved to the extent their fur is hanging off their jutting bones, these once majestic creatures are mercilessly being killed to decorate the homes of the elite, while their bones are ground down to make “tonic” wines.
As few as 3,500 tigers survive in the wild, yet more than 5,000 captive-bred tigers are held in sickening Chinese ‘farms’ and ‘zoos’.
Now, pictures released by environmental campaigners shame China’s failed efforts to protect these endangered creatures.
Investigations by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) have uncovered a legalised domestic trade in the sale of tiger body parts, with skins alone being worth up to £25,000.
Although a 1993 State Council order in China banned the use of tiger bone for medicinal purposes, new evidence suggests a ‘secret’ Government notification on the use of the bones of captive-bred tigers is being used to justify the manufacture of ‘tonic’ wines, which can sell for as much as £130 a bottle.
Tiger bones are soaked in wine, but are not listed as an ingredient in the 'tonic', the reports states.
The report accuses China of defying the will of the international community and calls upon more senior levels of the Government to take control and amend laws to facilitate the destruction of stockpiles of all tiger parts and the phasing out of tiger farms.
EIA also wants the Government to send a clear message to all breeders, consumers and the industry that official policy is to end all demand and trade.
Debbie Banks, Head of EIA’s Tiger Campaign, said: “The stark contradiction between China’s international posture supporting efforts to save the wild tiger and its inward-facing domestic policies which stimulate demand and ultimately drive the poaching of wild tigers represents one of the biggest cons ever perpetrated in the history of tiger conservation.
“Pro-tiger trade policies are championed by only a handful of officials in a couple of Government departments and it behooves China to vigorously address and terminate this intolerable disconnect between words and deeds which so undermines international efforts to save the tiger.”
A vat of the tiger wine "tonic"
Pressure for greater protection of rare species including tigers grew ahead the opening of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species in Bangkok.
A David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation spokesman said: “EIA is working with us on the Tiger Time campaign to raise awareness and stop the illegal trade in tigers from all sources whether wild or farmed.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/380 ... -into-wine
There are only a few dozen tigers left in the wild in China. So how is it that the market in tiger pelts and bones is booming there?
The answer is tiger farms. In one way they resemble puppy mills — they breed large numbers of animals for profit. In two other ways they are very different: puppies leave the mills alive, and the mills are closed to the public. Some say the treatment of tigers on Chinese farms is more like that of chickens or livestock.
In China tiger farms are legal and operate like zoos, charging admission for visitors to see mostly tame animals in barren cages or being forced with beatings to do tricks. Hua Ning, project director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare in China, says that tiger farms sometimes pull out tigers’ teeth or claws.
The cats are often malnourished, reduced to just skin and bones. However their skin and bones are what sell, the former for rugs, the latter to be ground into supposedly tonic tiger wine. Oh — and penises. They are made into a soup that is believed to improve virility and can cost as much as $320 per bowl. (Pfizer, you are missing a golden opportunity to market Viagra to a population that seems to be in great need of it.)
The farms deny that they are anything but zoos and that they kill or sell the cats. Meanwhile, they struggle to stay afloat financially, spending money that should be going to feed starving tigers on freezing the carcasses of slain cats instead.
We’re talking about a lot of tigers. A report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) estimates China’s captive tiger population at 5,000-6,000; The Guardian puts the number at 6,000-10,000. If the purpose of the farms was to breed animals for release into the wild those numbers would be cause for celebration, as experts predict that tigers may become extinct in the wild within 20 years. But no farm has ever released a captive tiger into the wild who survived.
http://www.care2.com/causes/chinese-tig ... parts.html
Hidden In Plain Sight:China's Clandestine Tiger Trade
http://www.eia-international.org/wp-con ... ed-res.pdf
China a culture of ignorance a society of savages.
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Not knocking your intent for posting this (I adore tigers and all big cats), but those photos are fucking horrific.
Maybe put a warning in the thread title?
And yes... apart from being a nearly extinct species.
That story was f'n sick. Not sick as the way the kids use the term either.
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
They absolutely do poach them in the wild, roughly 5% of the 3000 wild tigers left are killed annually by poachers mainly the Chinese. There are 9 sub species of tigers 3 of which are now extinct and the south china tiger is listed as one of the top 10 most endangered animals in the world. These animals are endangered and protected but that means nothing to the Chinese.
Whatever the chinese (and other countries that have the same practices) say, these animal farms DO NOT help the conservation effort. They are not bred for potential release in the wild (but then again - habitat is being destroyed), they are not bread for behavioural study, they are not bred for conservation. They are bred for money and tourism. They are a commodity and these farms just perpetuate the notion that it's OK to use these animals as such. It does not teach anyone anything but greed and mistreatment of animals. Also teaches them it's OK to kill for that - yay for poaching...
So you would be willing to justify what they`re doing if they had them in slightly better living conditions and were selling them as tiger steaks?
for once i could go off
i love byrnzie
where he lives pisses me off
yet they seem to be spiritual people with the fortune cookie type stuff & confucious
i like old ass china but still they been expoilting tigers & rhinos & bear gall bladders for thousands of years im sure
get a grip you stupid shits. tiger farms? are you fucking serious? i want a fucking chinese farm how about that?
i will cage & hold captive chinese ppl in my next dream. let's see how sick & twisted it can get.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
China is signed up to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which forbids international commercial trade in tiger parts and derivatives.
The accord also calls for domestic trade prohibitions, the consolidation and destruction of stockpiles of tiger parts and products and assurances that tigers are not bred for trade in their parts and derivatives.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... skins.html
No, because it is a wild animal and not a 'domestic' one. It does not adapt to 'taming'. Tigers have rarely been hunted for food, the meat often discarded (is it not good? I don't know..) Even for tigers killed in relation to the tiger/human conflict, it's not usually eaten.
So... is it OK to hunt it in the wild for food then, you will ask? Again, not - it's near extinct and what is left most probably not a viable population. 95% of tigers have been killed since my mother was born. The rest may disappear in the next 20 years.
elephant, rhino, gorilla, giraffe, tiger, lion, all big cats, bear, snakes, whales, sharks & other fish & other exotics
first...
string up ted nugent for being a loud mouth who brags about murdering animals
obama should hault trade with china until they can be civil towards animals. simple
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Forgive every being,
the bad feelings
it's just me"
Jarring, disturbing, heartbreaking, and utterly fucked up.
That is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen on the forum!
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
“Often the only difference – the only thing that dulls or quiets our empathy – is the simple fact that they are far away and out of sight.”
Wayne Pacelle (HSUS)
"Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world."
Rukmini Devi Arundale
Believe me, it ain't naivete that got me, it was unexpectedly seeing those photos.
One can give a shit, even cry, and not have to see those photos to feel that way.
Moot point by now, though.
In the video, two uniformed men are shown slapping and shaking the head of a lethargic tiger and violently jumping on its back.
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-ne ... c-20130507
You can pretty much reference this quote on any story related to China and animals. :fp:
"Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies."
Morrissey
They have No Moral Code. Soul less
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
That right there is unreal, and people wonder why animals go bezerk then attack driven to this state of madness.
Peace
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Even that beaten down beast would easily work those 2 pricks.
Police in the port city of Zhanjiang, in the southern province of Guangdong, seized a freshly slaughtered tiger and multiple tiger products in a raid this month, said the Nanfang Daily, the mouthpiece of the provincial Communist Party.
Local officials and prominent businesspeople gathered to watch the tigers being killed as "eye-openers" to show off their social stature, it said. Video footage of a killing two years ago showed the tiger, kept in an iron cage, having an electrified iron mass prodded into its mouth with a wooden stick and passing out after being electrocuted for more than 10 seconds, the paper said.
An experienced cattle or pig slaughterer is normally hired to butcher the carcass, it said, adding that tiger bones sold for an average of 14,000 yuan (£1,360) a kilo while the meat fetched 1,000 yuan a kilo.
Police said a butcher – who jumped to his death while trying to escape arrest in a raid – had killed more than 10 animals, the report on Wednesday added. "The tigers were probably anaesthetised for transport. But buyers would check them to make sure that they were alive before the killing," it quoted an unnamed source as saying.
Most buyers of the meat and bones were business owners who would then give them to officials as gifts, the paper said.
Tiger bones have long been an ingredient of traditional Chinese medicine, for a supposed capacity to strengthen the human body. While they have been removed from official ingredient lists, there is still deman.
Decades of trafficking and habitat destruction have cut tiger numbers from 100,000 a century ago to about 3,000, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/tigers-killed-entertainment-guangdong-businessmen
Fucking savages
"Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies."
Morrissey
shark fin consumption is down in china based on PR campaigns ... it's about educating the ignorant ... classifying them as subspecies serves no purpose ...
maybe it was posted already, i saw where chinese zoo fuckers were abusing a tiger, i couldn't get the link to open so i found something that may be it
these assholes should have their throttles ripped out by the tiger's claws
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce