Tigers killed to entertain Chinese Fat Cats

[greenman3610]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/tigers-killed-entertainment-guangdong-businessmen

More than 10 tigers have been killed as "visual feasts" in China to entertain officials and rich business people, state media reported.

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.

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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.(sic)

[Heidi]

1. Shameful.

for visibility!

[CFLDem]

2. There's a special circle in hell for animal abusers.

[Heidi]

4. I don't believe in hell, but I certainly hope these folks have an epiphany.

This practice is absolutely shameful.

[onehandle]

3. 16th century society with 21st century resources. nt