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China restaurant served banned tiger meat: CITES
Reuters ^ | June 12, 2007 | Alister Doyle

Posted on 06/13/2007 8:01:29 AM PDT by GladesGuru

DNA indicates that Chinese tiger farm tiger meat was served at a restaurant.

Enviros are worried that if tiger farms are allowed to sell tiger meat, parts, hides, etc. that poachers will kill wild tigers


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; cites; food; tiger
Tiger meat was served at a restaurant in China, and CITES personnel and environmentalists are upset.

The core issue is whether CITES forbids tigers being kept as livestock, cage grown and harvested for profit. Of possible interest is the historic fact that the animal from which our cattle were derived, Bos primogens, is now extinct.

Said extinction was partly due to it being a huge and ill tempered beast, dangerous to have in the neighborhood. Because cattle could be domesticated and had economic value, they are everywhere.

The lesson is clear - make tigers economically viable livestock and they will survive. If not, then not.

1 posted on 06/13/2007 8:01:32 AM PDT by GladesGuru
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To: GladesGuru

Hmmm. Don’t know about eating tiger meat, but I do seem to recall that tigers make great butter...


2 posted on 06/13/2007 8:03:15 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Don't mistake timid driving for defensive driving.)
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To: Sam's Army
I'd imagine that tigers being so strong and skinny, they'd be kinda tough.  Do you think the restaurateur broke with tradition and actually served this with knives?  Or did they try to pick it apart with chopsticks.
I hate it when newspapers leave out the most relevant parts of the story.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

3 posted on 06/13/2007 8:08:44 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

Despite the claims for Tiger Balm, I’ll take a good tiger rug, any day.


4 posted on 06/13/2007 8:09:31 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: Owl_Eagle

A cat is just a small tiger


5 posted on 06/13/2007 8:10:33 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: GladesGuru

Tigers breed very easily in captivity. Why would you go to the expense, wait, danger and inconvenience of hunting, preserving and shipping a tiger, when you could have one right next to your facilities ready for processing?

“Wild-caught tiger” has a certain cachet, perhaps. The upscale establishments might prefer it.

Mrs VS


6 posted on 06/13/2007 8:11:05 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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Amen, GladesGuru, and preach on!


7 posted on 06/13/2007 8:11:20 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: GladesGuru

Yum. Tiger.


8 posted on 06/13/2007 8:11:49 AM PDT by GFritsch ('All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved'." -)
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To: GladesGuru

Parts is parts.


9 posted on 06/13/2007 8:12:43 AM PDT by pissant
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To: VeritatisSplendor
“Wild-caught tiger” has a certain cachet, perhaps. The upscale establishments might prefer it.

Sure, but how are they going to know once it's served up in a stir-fry or bowl of soup? "Wild tiger" (like wild salmon, apparently) would have a slightly different taste? Well, heck, through the miracle of modern chemistry...

10 posted on 06/13/2007 8:15:01 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Hegemony Cricket
"...but I do seem to recall that tigers make great butter..."

Do they, really? I didn't know they were that technologically advanced.

< /smartass>
11 posted on 06/13/2007 8:15:04 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: LIConFem
"...but I do seem to recall that tigers make great butter..."

But only with these...


12 posted on 06/13/2007 8:17:12 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: AppyPappy
"A cat is just a small tiger"

And a cow is just a small Kennedy. And if you stew cranberries like applesauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
13 posted on 06/13/2007 8:17:13 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: VeritatisSplendor
“Wild-caught tiger” has a certain cachet, perhaps.

The politically correct term is "free range tiger."

14 posted on 06/13/2007 8:17:26 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("You just killed a helicopter with a car!" "I know. I was out of bullets.")
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To: AppyPappy
A cat is just a small tiger
 
So "stringy" would be a better adjective?  I guess you could eat stringy meat with chopsticks.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

15 posted on 06/13/2007 8:58:50 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

LOL! One of my favorite stories as a youth. I hope they knew enough to serve them with scrumptious pancakes.


16 posted on 06/13/2007 9:08:19 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus ("Eat yer groatcakes, Porgy!" "Heavy on the thirty weight, Mom!")
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