Green | June 14, 2008 | 5 comments

Grisly wildlife trade exposed: National Geographic

source: http://www.care2.com/news/member/785844898/779533

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An activist uses a video camera to expose what many would consider a grisly illegal wildlife trade in Myanmar.

WARNING! Extremely Graphic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjtEJHQluCQ#

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http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/?source= 4001
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5 comments // Grisly wildlife trade exposed: National Geographic // Video

  • mooseydoom
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      mooseydoom  

    • wow, The extent of human supersticions is terrible.

      While I was traveling in China, one of the worst places I saw was at the zoo in Beijing. The large cat cages where nothing more than a cell.

      The animals looked underfed, and abused by the guests that visit the park.

      For instance, the bear pit there that was full of garbage and surrounded by hecklers pouring drinks and throwing food at the poor animal.

    • 3 years ago
  • Sara_Airey
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      Sara_Airey  

    • Fuck that. That's all I have to say except that if I ever witnissed that in front of me, I would be damn sure to do whatever I could physically do to stop it. That's just sick.

    • 3 years ago
  • abbym0308
  • JadeGhostWriter
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      JadeGhostWriter  
    • abbym0308:

      Geez, Louise! Talk about a 'recipe for deadly dining'! Thank you abbym for sharing. Between you & Laura Ling there, I'd say my suspicions about those asian 'wild' animal markets are very nearly confirmed.

      I'd bet that most of those animals have never even been seen by a qualified veterinarian. Who knows what all kinds of diseases they might be carrying?

      Though I'm sure that by 'wild' they really mean 'feral', that is to say a domesticated animal which has reverted to a 'wild'-like state due to neglect or maltreatment, I have also heard tell that many in the asian meat markets have also been known to steal other people's pets to kill for either their meat, or their fur, or both. The conditions in most of these markets is deplorable and, sometimes, conditions in some restaurants have been just as bad. I have seen video footage before, of a restaurant somewhere in China that kept live animals, in cages, in their kitchen areas so that the cooks could butcher the animals themselves, right there, in order to have the 'freshest meat possible'.

    • 3 years ago
  • bokonon
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      bokonon  

    • Bear bile farms! The Chinese medicine superstitions are doing as much to harm our world as any other fundamentalist religion. It is so disappointing, the irreparable harm being done to these ecosystems.

    • 3 years ago
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