Comments on: China Pushes for Tiger Meat on the Menu http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/thegist/2007/05/21/china-pushes-for-tiger-meat-on-the-menu/ Science, Insight, Summary, Smithsonain.com Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:18:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: bacchus http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/thegist/2007/05/21/china-pushes-for-tiger-meat-on-the-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 bacchus Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:40:04 +0000 http://thegist.smithsonianmag.com/archives/63#comment-2461 Why would anyone want to eat a tiger anyway? Why would anyone want to eat a tiger anyway?

]]> By: anncetera http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/thegist/2007/05/21/china-pushes-for-tiger-meat-on-the-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-2460 anncetera Thu, 31 May 2007 22:28:29 +0000 http://thegist.smithsonianmag.com/archives/63#comment-2460 Tigers are an endangered species, rapidly being poached out of existence. WHY would one want to legalize 'farming' them? Oh, yeah... why would anyone let anything get in the way of the almighty yen? Even at the expense of the clearly manmade extinction of a top carnivore species, including all the remaining subspecies. Habitat preservation and anti-poaching measures with robust enforcement are the way to go, along with a public education campaign that teaches other ways to achieve health benefits and status than to eat tiger meat. Tigers are an endangered species, rapidly being poached out of existence. WHY would one want to legalize ‘farming’ them? Oh, yeah… why would anyone let anything get in the way of the almighty yen? Even at the expense of the clearly manmade extinction of a top carnivore species, including all the remaining subspecies.

Habitat preservation and anti-poaching measures with robust enforcement are the way to go, along with a public education campaign that teaches other ways to achieve health benefits and status than to eat tiger meat.

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