Where will this ever end? (That's a rhetorical question - you don't have to answer it) ; I know exactly where this ends and also have a pretty good idea when it will end too, if the commoditising speciesists of the world have their way.
Click on this link : Trading in Misery
I hardly know where to begin to refute the crap written here - there's just so much of it. Karen Trendler at least seems to have the right idea. But let's start at the very beginning (a very good place to start).
"A decent and responsible trade in lion bones". How can a trade in the bones from the apex carnivore of Africa - a magnificent majestic animal who deserves nothing less than to be left in peace, unimpeded in his natural ecosystem - be either "decent" or "responsible"? Doesn't make sense.
Am I hearing right - we do this to feed the surging demand in Asia, otherwise poaching will increase? Has anyone ever heard of allowing shoot on sight policies when it comes to apprehending poachers? What about the reintroduction of the death penalty for poaching? It would certainly raise the stakes if you were caught - nothing like paying with your life, as a deterrant. Oh sorry - we're supposed to be "civilised" aren't we? Take a good hard look at the atrocities - the genocide - that mankind is wreaking on animals as we speak, and tell me we're civilised.
And we can't re-educate the Chinese can we? That would be "imperialist". That's the problem with humans - once they have bullshit in their brains, it's almost impossible to change their minds. Tell the Chinese to go and grind up their finger nails - it's the same stuff as rhino horn and won't cost a cent. They're already carning away on pigs - let them grind up pig bones, and leave the lions alone. I already have a big enough bone (sorry) to pick with the world's pig (and other "food animal") producers for the way they treat their animals, so I'm not condoning what they do, but if it's impossible to change the Chinese mind about lion bones, I presume it's equally impossible to change their minds about consuming pork - and they are the world's biggest pork consumers. So let a scientist carry out an analysis of lion bones and pig bones and tell the Chinese that they are exactly the same at a molecular level and will achieve exactly the same (i.e. nothing) once in powder form.
Since when is education not the cure for stupidity? OK OK - I admit some people are sooo stupid you will have to repeat the same message 95 times, but eventually they'll get it. Remember - they had to hear the original bullshit a few dozen times before they started to believe it, so there's hope yet that the damage can be undone.
Lion bones are sought as a replacement for tiger bones because of the demise in the region's tiger populations.
Well Ѓϋ©Ж me! I'm breathless with amazement!!!!
How the hell do the Chinese think the tiger population got to its demise in the first place. FFS!!! There are nearly 1.4 billion of the Chinese and they now want to switch their attention to the last 18- 25 000 lions left on the African continent. And many South Africans are so greedy they'd sell their grandmothers - and all of our wildlife heritage, as long as there's a buyer throwing enough money at them. We have a weak currency - you don't even have to throw a lot of money at them.
This link is to an article entitled "90% drop in Africa's lion population in the last 20 years. Does anyone care?"
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/africa-lions.html#cr
In the section dealing with elephant poaching, the author notes: "In addressing the appalling losses through poaching of these two species Richard Leakey spearheaded a massive campaign to combat the poaching and also harnessing the huge attention and funding that his efforts and those of many others generated. This all resulted in dramatically reducing the poaching in Kenya, international bans on ivory and rhino horn and species protection policies that are still much in place today where these species exist."
(Prof Richard Leakey needs no introduction.).
That's the way to deal with poaching! You don't legalise the trade in farmed wild animals because certain humans can't reconcile themselves with not using the products of their bodies, and other humans are so damned greedy that they will stop at nothing until the population is decimated. And when that happens they will fix their avaricious gaze on the next project of plunder.
The barbarity of hunting ranched lion. Intensive "factory farming" of food animals is bad enough, but now we want to to farm our wild heritage. How stressful do we think it might be for lion to be "farmed" and hunted? Under what disgusting conditions? Lions are irrepressibly wild and free in their genetics, and we are going to farm them? Why should anyone care about stress? Because cortisol in the chronic stress reaction compromises the immune response, resulting in illness from opportunistic pathogens that would otherwise be kept at bay. And mans response? Antibiotics - which is exactly why the "food farms" have to ply the animals continually with antibiotics. Filthy conditions, overcrowding, stress, illness - geddit? It's a causal chain-reaction.
Quoting from the ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) News, (http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/8455) I will leave the postscript to Jimmy Smith, the ILRI Director General : "Animal source foods are the biggest contributor to food-borne disease, Smith said. Diseases transmitted from livestock and livestock products kill more people each year than HIV or malaria. Indeed, one new human disease emerges every 2 months; and 20 percent of these are transmitted from livestock."
Big black mark for factory farming. And we want to do the same to wildlife?
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