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Good News From CITES
The 171 member countries of CITES(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) voted overwhelmingly today for China to shut the fuck up. In other words: China will not be allowed to run Tiger farms for the purpose of breeding Tigers for slaughter. China has been petitioning the international convention for the sanction to begin trading Tiger parts from Tigers captive bred on farms. Their rationale is that it would help protect wild Tigers from poaching if there were a legal means to get Tiger parts. Read this from India PR Wire:
The captive breeding of a tiger requires 250 times more of a financial investment than the pittance necessary to put a bullet in a tiger and transport it to market.
In other words: nice try China. But why do people want Tiger parts? They are used in ancient but "unproven" folk-remedies, for everything from impotence to protection from Centipedes. I'll agree, Centipedes are scary, but does it really take a pile of burning Tiger testicles to drive them away? Why don't the Chinese just eat the Centipedes, they eat everything else?
Everything Else
Read the actual legislative bitch slap:
“RECOMMENDS that the consumer States of specimens from the tiger and other Asian big cat species: where necessary and appropriate, remove references to parts and derivatives of Appendix-I Asian big cats from the official pharmacopoeia and include acceptable substitute products that do not endanger other wild species, and introduce programmes to educate the industry and user groups in order to eliminate the use of substances derived from Appendix-I Asian big cats and promote the adoption of appropriate alternatives….”
In other words: Hey China, welcome to the 21st century! Just because your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather used to let a Black Widow Spider sting him on the dick so he could get an erection larger than two inches, doesn't mean you need to do it now just to validate your ancient and honorable culture. A hundred-and-fifty years ago America used to treat black people pretty badly and now...well, fuck it, that's a bad example.
Read about Tigers from the Horse's Mouth.
--Ms Sharky
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Hooray for Tigers anyway,
8 comments
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Thank you.
Thank you Mexico Indeed!!!
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