Posted on 02/05/2010 12:04:31 PM PST by decimon
Yes, aren’t these the people that strangle dogs slowly because it makes the meat taste good?
I don’t care about “cultural differences”. I think some cultures better than others.
The Peta sissies are too scared to fly off to China to protest.
Anyways, right now, they are too overwhelmed with the work they need to do to get a robot groundhog replace Punxatawney Phil.
Nah I usually ran a wire hanger through its gill and kept it alive till I sawed its head off when I got home.
Keeps it fresher that way
I would love to feed anyone that would do this to that cat.
LLS
So it becomes "needless suffering" if somebody watches the tigers kill the animal?
hell will be paid in full for this act and others like it.
LLS
I am not a Vegan and that cat would have eaten that beef just as well if it had been humanly killed and fed to it.
LLS
As the natural environment becomes worse, many creatures are endangered and some have died out. The Siberian tiger is considered endangered. It is the largest felid in the world and is known as the King of the Forest. In the 1980s, it was listed as one of the first-class national protected animals of China. To preserve this valuable species, the Siberian Tiger Park was built in 1996.
The park is located on the north bank of the Songhua River to the northwest of Harbin, occupying an area of 1,440,000 square meters (355.8 acres). It is the largest natural park for wild Siberian tigers in the world at present. The park enjoys a favorable foundation for ecotourism and splendid scenery and it is an ideal place for holiday and leisure. There are over 500 purebred Siberian tigers here, with 100 visible to visitors. In addition, visitors can also see white tigers, lions, lynx, leopards, and black pumas as well as Bengali tigers.
It is a large park divided into ten areas, including the young tiger area, the mature tiger area, the king tiger area, a walking area and a platform for viewing the tigers. Unlike common zoos, the Siberian Tiger Park exchanges the roles of visitors and animals. Except in the walking area and the platform for viewing the tigers, tourists must take a bus encircled by wire mesh to all the other scenic spots while the tigers roam freely in the fields.
The mature tiger area has an area of 360,000 square meters (89 acres) with 30 unruly Siberian tigers wandering there. The tigers in this area are all about 7 or 8 years old. And in the young tiger area, there are over 40 young lovely, active tigers about 2 years old. Visitors can see them playing and fighting with each other in a pool nearby. Some even younger tigers are kept in the walking area, snuggling together. The park also houses some lions which coexist peacefully with the tigers.
For visitors who love to see exciting activities, the Siberian Tiger Park is also a perfect place. In addition to viewing the tigers walking leisurely in the open-air, visitors can buy poultry or animals to feed them, including ducks, chickens, and even cows. Park employees will set the living animal free among the tigers, and visitors can see the unique live action of tigers preying upon it.
http://www.visitourchina.com/guide/siberian_tiger_park.htm
An artificially staged event? Yep! No zoo in America does anything like this that I know of.
I've killed my share of animals and birds when hunting, and plan to shoot a bunch more. Never seen a time yet that I'd describe it as being as peaceful a death as if it had died in its sleep.
In this particular case, I'd bet that animal didn't live too long once the tigers got hold of its throat, and I don't know that it suffered any more than it would have in some alternative way that it would have died.
What I don’t like to see are zoos where animals are kept in small cages or that look upset, so I just adored this park. Amusingly, this park swaps the role of animals VS humans. It’s the humans that are enclosed in caged walkways, and go around in caged buses... whilst the animals roam around the park. It’s the largest natural park for wild Siberian tigers in the world at present - very cool!
All the gorgeous animals, roaming freely AND looking so healthy. http://beverly.livejournal.com/797535.html
So you're saying that its "needless suffering" if some people are offended by it?
I'm not seeing a problem in letting a tiger kill its food the way it would in its wild environment, so I'm trying to understand what complaint people have with it.
LLS
Of course. Why should the vultures only get scraps?
There are many so called ‘zoos’ all throughout China that are deplorable enough to gripe about as they are nothing more than concrete and iron bars. I see nothing wrong with this.
At the Lion Park we got some good pictures of the lions trudging right next to the car. Windows up....
No, I’m saying, if a tiger stalks and captures its prey in the wild and eats it- well, it’s not pretty, but that’s the natural circle of life. But when you take a cow and basically hand it to the tiger so human beings can sit there and enjoy watching it get eaten, well, that’s not the natural way it happens and it’s immoral and the animal needlessly suffers. If you really have no problem with this, then why not just take dogs from the pound who would normally be put down, and simply feed them live to tigers so people could enjoy watching it?
Didn't look like a particularly inhumane death to me.
Seeing the comments on this thread, the impression that I had was that they were being made by people that thought that meat comes from a grocery store.
Flip a coin. I'd have no preference. I'm dead either way.
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