Tiger Farms in China Feed Big Thirst for Part – China Environment

www.nytimes.com — A description of a Guilin Tiger farm, where the animals are bred to create various black market culinary delicacies. Like Japan drives whale extinction, so China does for tigers. This is NOT just China bashing either, hence I am putting up another version of the story that wdbox put up earlier which got voted down. It's quite a sad sight.

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Tiger Farms in China Feed Big Thirst for Part

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Heiney 1 year 51 weeks ago

I like cats. I do not like cats in captivity.

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