Chinese Animal Park Feeds Tigers Live Cattle
May 24th, 2007 by James
Here’s a graphic Japanese TV news report from a safari park in the northern Chinese city of Harbin, where spectators enjoy watching tigers kill live cattle:
Another video: gleeful visitors watch a cow get killed:
The story original comes from Britain’s Sky News, which has dubbed it “HORRIFYING ANIMAL ABUSE IN CHINA“.
[via Zero]
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I have a hard time calling this animal abuse. The animal is being led the slaughter sure… But its not abuse. The animals are eatting to stay alive.
This is not terribly different then my feeding my old pirahna live goldfish.
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I kinda agree but the sky news report isn’t just about this. It also talks about the conditions the animals live in, with some of them going mad and stuff. It’s also not very nice that they seem to be doing the live feedings for entertainment.
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As has been shown in the Sky News report, the animals are actually overweight and not starving. That is the reason why they’re not eating the animals as fast as expected and why their death is so slow and drawn-out. This is done purely for the enjoyment of spectators.
This is absolutely sickening. China has an abhorrent record of human rights and animal rights violations; hopefully as the country grows economically, it will develop and become more civilised in these respects.
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China is turning into the Roman Empire. This is wonderful news for the world.
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harbin is not too far, away if i go there this summer james, ill go here with my camera and take some videos and photos if i get the chance and keep you up to date
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What the hell is this world coming too? Savagery. Pure freaking savagery.
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Don’t tigers eat live animals in the wild? Why don’t we accuse the wild tigers for animal abuse？ Wait a min! Is it animal abuse to not allow tigers to eat live animals?
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I agree what they have done is somewhat cruel and I think this act should be stopped, but it would be hypocritical for one to call this abuse if one is a meat eater him/herself. You’re no different from the tiger, the difference is that you eat meat in a slightly more sanitized way.
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I want to throw those people into the tigers.
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Those who are excited to see is more fearful for me.
But the Korean are not inferior to the Chinese on that point.
” Pig Slaughter ” Demonstration in South Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6KXmRGW2o
http://news.joins.com/article/aid/2007/05/23/2929878.html
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China did it once AGAIN….oi.
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Is there a PETA china ?
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It is a chinese cruelity to the animals. I hate chinese in this case. They are animal fucker.
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I read about this zoo several years ago (it’s been around for a while). I consider it animal cruelty because of its excessiveness, and frankly would want the practice banned. I also thought that some people in China wanted it banned (guess they didn’t succeed).
While I find it disgusting, I have to agree with several of the previous commentators who point out the hypocrisy of denouncing “the Chinese” while being blissfully ignorant of our own societies and practices.
Our notions of “animal rights” are quite modern. Indeed only a few decades ago, in Japan and most of the world, animals could be found live and killed in public markets, and there were shows featuring animal torture (cock-fighting, bull-fighting, etc). Even in modern societies some of these practices continue, and there are many places where animals are sacrificed as part of a religious/cultural ceremony.
Those of use who live in the age of supermarkets and pet-stores do not see the consequences of our actions, but are rather content with our sanitized version of animal cruelty. So long as the the killing is done away from our eyes it is ok, even though it is nonetheless ultimately for our enjoyment. (This isn’t to say that I’m a vegan, I’m a meat lover who often orders chicken with his salad.)
In China, like most of Asia (and farther back Europe), the modern concept of animal rights is only beginning to take root, but awareness is increasing. It’s disgusting to see that some of the commentators have taken the discussion to racist lows. It’s also strange to see that some aren’t aware that most of the developing world treats its animals with lower standards.
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