CHINESE ZOOS FEED LAMBS TO LIONS FOR KIDS AMUSEMENT!!!!!!(pics!!!!!)
KOOPSTA KNICCA
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The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head
and tickled it behind the ears.
Some of the more boisterous ones tried to clamber onto the animal's back
but were soon shaken off with a quick wiggle of its bottom.
It could have been a happy scene from a family zoo anywhere in the world
but for what happened next.
A man hoisted up the goat and nonchalantly threw it over a wall into a
pit full of hungry lions. The poor goat tried to run for its life, but
it didn't stand a chance. The lions quickly surrounded it and started
tearing at its flesh.
"Oohs" and "aahs" filled the air as the children watched the goat being
ripped limb from limb. Some started to clap silently with a look of
wonder in their eyes.
The scenes witnessed at Badaltearing Safari Park in China are rapidly
becoming a normal day out for many Chinese families.
Once the goat is carried from its pen, it is swiftly thrown into the
lion enclosure
Baying crowds now gather in zoos across the country to watch animals
being torn to pieces by lions and tigers.
Just an hour's drive from the main Olympic attractions in Beijing,
Badaling is in many ways a typical Chinese zoo.
Next to the main slaughter arena is a restaurant where families can dine
on braised dog while watching cows and goats being disembowelled by
lions.
The zoo also encourages visitors to "fish" for lions using live chickens
as bait. For just £2, giggling visitors tie terrified chickens onto
bamboo rods and dangle them in front of the lions, just as a cat owner
might tease their pet with a toy.
The ravenous big cats quickly attack the goat and start to tear it limb
from limb, all in the name of 'entertainment' for the Badaling zoo
visitors
During one visit, a woman managed to taunt the big cats with a petrified
chicken for five minutes before a lion managed to grab the bird in its
jaws.
The crowd then applauded as the bird flapped its wings pathetically in a
futile bid to escape. The lion eventually grew bored and crushed the
terrified creature to death.
The tourists were then herded onto buses and driven through the lions'
compound to watch an equally cruel spectacle. The buses have specially
designed chutes down which you can push live chickens and watch as they
are torn to shreds.
Once again, children are encouraged to take part in the slaughter.
"It's almost a form of child abuse," says Carol McKenna of the OneVoice
animal welfare group. "The cruelty of Chinese zoos is disgusting, but
think of the impact on the children watching it. What kind of future is
there for China if its children think this kind of cruelty is normal?
"In China, if you love animals you want to kill yourself every day out
of despair."
But the cruelty of Badaling doesn't stop with animals apart. For those
who can still stomach it, the zoo has numerous traumatised animals to
gawp at.
A pair of endangered moon bears with rusting steel nose rings are
chained up in cages so small that they cannot even turn around.
One has clearly gone mad and spends most of its time shaking its head
and bashing into the walls of its prison.
There are numerous other creatures, including tigers, which also appear
to have been driven insane by captivity. Predictably, they are kept in
cramped, filthy conditions.
!Zoos like this make me want to boycott everything Chinese," says Emma
Milne, star of the BBC's Vets In Practice.
"I'd like to rip out everything in my house that's made in China. I have
big problems with their culture.
"If you enjoy watching an animal die then that's a sad and disgusting
reflection on you.
"Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by their behaviour towards animals,
as the value of human life is so low in China."
East of Badaling lies the equally horrific Qingdao zoo. Here, visitors
can take part in China's latest craze
Simply put, Chinese families now gather in zoos to hurl coins at
tortoises.
Legend has it that if you hit a tortoise on the head with a coin and
make a wish, then your heart's desire will come true. It's the Chinese
equivalent of a village wishing well.
To feed this craze, tortoises are kept in barbaric conditions inside
small bare rooms.
When giggling tourists begin hurling coins at them, they desperately try
to protect themselves by withdrawing into their shells.
But Chinese zoo keepers have discovered a way round this: they wrap
elastic bands around the animals' necks to stop them retracting their
heads.
"Tortoises aren't exactly fleet of foot and can't run away," says Carol
McKenna.
"It's monstrous that people hurl coins at the tortoises, but strapping
their heads down with elastic bands so they can't hide is even more
disgusting.
"Because tortoises can't scream, people assume they don't suffer. But
they do. I can't bear to think what it must be like to live in a tiny
cell and have people hurl coins at you all day long."
Even worse is in store for the animals of Xiongsen Bear and Tiger
Mountain Village near Guilin in south-east China.
Here, live cows are fed to tigers to amuse cheering crowds. During a
recent visit, I watched in horror as a young cow was stalked and caught.
Its screams and cries filled the air as it struggled to escape.
A wild tiger would dispatch its prey within moments, but these beasts'
natural killing skills have been blunted by years of living in tiny
cages.
Eventually, the keepers broke up the contest and slaughtered the cow
themselves, much to the disappointment of the crowd.
Although the live killing exhibition was undoubtedly depressing, an
equally disturbing sight lay around the corner: the "animal parade".
Judging by the rest of the operation, the unseen training methods are
unlikely to be humane, but what visitors view is bad enough.
Tigers, bears and monkeys perform in a degrading "entertainment". Bears
wear dresses, balance on balls and not only ride bicycles but mount
horses too.
The showpiece is a bear riding a bike on a high wire above a parade of
tigers, monkeys and trumpet-playing bears.
Astonishingly, the zoo also sells tiger meat and wine produced from big
cats kept in battery-style cages.
Tiger meat is eaten widely in China and the wine, made from the crushed
bones of the animals, is a popular drink.
Although it is illegal, the zoo is quite open about its activities. In
fact, it boasts of having 140 dead tigers in freezers ready for the
plate.
In the restaurant, visitors can dine on strips of stir-fried tiger with
ginger and Chinese vegetables. Also on the menu are tiger soup and a
spicy red curry made with tenderised strips of big cat.
And if all that isn't enough, you can dine on lion steaks, bear's paw,
crocodile and several different species of snake.
"Discerning" visitors can wash it all down with a glass or two of
vintage wine made from the bones of Siberian tigers.
The wine is made from the 1,300 or so tigers reared on the premises. The
restaurant is a favourite with Chinese Communist Party officials who
often pop down from Beijing for the weekend.
China's zoos claim to be centres for education and conservation. Without
them, they say, many species would become extinct.
This is clearly a fig leaf and some would call it a simple lie. Many are
no better than "freak shows" from the middle ages and some are no
different to the bloody tournaments of ancient Rome.
"It's farcical to claim that these zoos are educational," says Emma
Milne.
"How can you learn anything about wild animals by watching them pace up
and down inside a cage? You could learn far more from a David
Attenborough documentary."
However pitiful the conditions might be in China's zoos, there are a few
glimmers of hope.
It is now becoming fashionable to own pets in China. The hope is that a
love for pets will translate into a desire to help animals in general.
This does appear to be happening, albeit slowly.
One recent MORI opinion poll discovered that 90 per cent of Chinese
people thought they had "a moral duty to minimise animal suffering".
Around 75 per cent felt that the law should be changed to minimise
animal suffering as much as possible.
In 2004, Beijing proposed animal welfare legislation which stipulated
that "no one should harass, mistreat or hurt animals". It would also
have banned animal fights and live feeding shows.
The laws would have been a huge step forward. But the proposals were
scrapped following stiff opposition from vested interests and those who
felt China had more pressing concerns.
And this is the central problem for animal welfare in China: its ruling
elite is brutally repressive and cares little for animals.
Centuries of rule by tyrannical emperors and bloody dictators have all
but eradicated the Buddhist and Confucian respect for life and nature.
As a result, welfare groups are urging people not to go to Chinese zoos
if they should visit the Olympics, as virtually every single one
inflicts terrible suffering on its animals
"They should tell the Chinese Embassy why they are refusing to visit
these zoos,' says Carol McKenna of OneVoice.
"If a nation is great enough to host the Olympic Games then it is great
enough to be able to protect its animals."
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Coppa
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Rob Cypher
Why don't you try pasting both sections of the URL together, idiots?
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Rob Cypher
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Badaling is also the tourist attraction for the Great Wall of China.
Different society has different values on life as seen in these
pictures. Maybe we should say feeding live goats to lions are better
than feeding Christians to the lions as Nero did in the fifth century.
James
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Here in the west feeding time is the most popular at zoos and parks.
Kids wait all week just to see the snake eat someone's unwanted pet
rabbit.
Funny things is people think it's perfectly OK to feed their pets live
mice, rats, rabbits while other people treat the same animals like
their children. They even spend more money at the vet than they do at
the MD for their own children. Read some of the pet groups to see
what they do.
CharlesLiu
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> > Badaling is also the tourist attraction for the Great Wall of China.
> > Different society has different values on life as seen in these
> > pictures. Maybe we should say feeding live goats to lions are better
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> Here in the west feeding time is the most popular at zoos and parks.
> Kids wait all week just to see the snake eat someone's unwanted pet
> rabbit.
Right, all the lions in democratic zoos eat carrots.
And take another look at the photo, do you think a live goat that size
can be carried by one hand?
Chalk it up to another poor attempt to demoniz Chinese children.
> Funny things is people think it's perfectly OK to feed their pets live
> mice, rats, rabbits while other people treat the same animals like
> their children. They even spend more money at the vet than they do at
> the MD for their own children. Read some of the pet groups to see
> what they do.- Hide quoted text -