ΚΑΤΕΨΥΓΜΕΝΕΣ ΤΙΓΡΕΙΣ

[Δάφνη]

ΤΙΣ ΚΑΤΆΣΧΕΣΑΝ ΟΙ ΑΡΧΕΣ

4 άτομα συνελήφθησαν χθες στο Βιετνάμ για μια πολύ περίεργη υπόθεση. Σε ταξί της χώρας η αστυνομία βρήκε 2 τίγρεις κατεψυγμένες. Πρόκειται για ένα είδος που απειλείται με εξαφάνιση οπότε...

η υπόθεση αυτή ειναι πολύ σοβαρή. Απο τις μέχρι τώρ καταθέσεις οι δράστες πλήρωσαν τις τίγρης 74 ευρώ το κιλό. Το γιατί τις ήθελαν δεν έχει γίνει γνωστό προς το παρόν

(ΤΡΩΚΤΙΚΟ ΜΠΛΟΓΚ)

[Franchesca]

Έχω μία ανατριχιαστική υπόθεση...
Η οποία βέβαια δεν είναι παράνομη! Έχετε ακούσει για τους "κατεψυγμένους ζωολογικούς κήπους";
Αν ψάξετε internet θα βρείτε πολλές πληροφορίες.
Έχουν κατεψυγμένα έμβρυα, ωάρια και σπερματοζωάρια ειδών υπό εξαφάνιση, αλλά και άλλων που έχουν ήδη εξαφανιστεί!
Συγκεκριμένα σε ένα ντοκιμαντέρ έλεγε για τον μαρσιποφόρο τίγρη της Ταζμανίας. Ότι θέλουν να τον επαναφέρουν με κλωνοποίηση μέσω παρένθετης μητέρας.
Κάτι που έχει ήδη γίνει στο παρελθόν. Γέννηση αγριόγατας από κατοικίδια γάτα.
Μάλλον κάτι ανάλογο θα ήταν και αυτό το συμβάν, αφού λες πώς είναι ήδη υπό εξαφάνιση.
Τίποτα μ@λ@κισμένες έρευνες και πειράματα θα κάνουν πάλι!

[Δάφνη]

Τα ζώα αυτά γνωρίζω οτι τα χρησιμοποιούν οι Κινέζοι και οι Μογγόλοι ως αφροδισιακό γεύμα...έχουν και φάρμες από τίγρεις γι αυτό το λόγο...

[Franchesca]

Υποθέτω ότι δε θα έχουν κτηνοτροφία είδους υπό εξαφάνιση.

[Δάφνη]

Ναι, δεν είναι είδος υπο εξαφάνιση, αλλά τίποτα δεν τους εμποδίζει να επιδωθούν σε άγριο κυνήγι. Σας θυμίζω τους αλμπίνους μαύρους στην Αφρική που τους ακρωτηρίαζαν γιατί πίστευαν οτι ο κάτοχος μέλουσ αλμπίνου είχε την τύχη με το μέρος του. Κάτι παρόμοιο ισχύει και για τα ζώα

[petros]

βρηκα και αυτο το αρθρο στο ΙΝΤΕΡΝΕΤ (http://forests.org/archive/asia/eattigme.htm)

Title: Japanese Tiger Meat Meal Sparks Anger
Source: The United Press International
Status: Copyrighted, contact source to reprint
Date: 7/10/98

TOKYO, July 10 (UPI) -- Japanese animal rights activists have protested against
a
television show that showed scenes of TV personalities eating the meat of an
endangered
species, the Bengali tiger.

``The World's Unique Dishes, Part 15,'' aired on Fuji TV Network Thursday,
featured a
traditional Chinese dish of fried Bengali tiger meat.

The program aired scenes of three reporters eating the tiger meat.

Some viewers called the TV station after the show to express their ire about the
scene,
saying it was revolting.

Sakiko Takada, a spokeswoman for the World Wide Fund for Nature Japan called the
TV
station to protest.

Takada said, ``The scene was insensitive'' and she wondered if program producers
had any
knowledge of which animals are close to extinction.

Fuji TV's chief public relations officer, Hideaki Hirose, said the meat was that
of a
tiger which had died in a zoo a year ago after fighting with other tigers.

He said the tiger was not killed for the meal.

Hirose said the show intended to recreate an age-old tradition in China in which
people
ate tiger meat believing they could enhance their lives.

Fuji TV had felt the scene was acceptable but Hirose said it will be more
sensitive to
such issues.

Bengali tigers live in hot climates, including those of India and Bangladesh. It
is
believed that only 3,000 to 4,700 of the animals exist worldwide because of
poaching.

International sales of the tigers are banned under an international treaty that
protects
species facing extinction.

[petros]

ΔΕΙΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟ !! (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/23/nation/18378008&sec=nation)

Kahang – exotic food paradise

KLUANG: Kahang town, about 40km from here, is fast gaining a reputation for its exotic food restaurants.

“If you are a regular customer and the restaurant operator knows you, you will be offered dishes made from protected animals, including tiger meat,” said Danny Chin, who frequentd such restaurants in Kahang.

He said the tiger meat, said to be good for health and an aphrodisiac, was served either fried with curry powder or cooked with herbs.

“The supply is inconsistent and so only the lucky ones who come on certain days will be able to enjoy it. The price for a plate of tiger meat fried with curry power is about RM40,” said Chin, who is in his 50s.

The restaurants also offer dishes made from wild boar, mountain goat, squirrel, mousedeer, bat, porcupine, anteater, tortoise, civet and various types of fish and prawn found in rivers in the Endau-Rompin National Park.

Lek Keng Chai, 40, from Johor Baru, said Kahang was also popular among Singaporeans.

He said the restaurants get their supplies from middlemen who bought the animals from the Orang Asli.

Lee Siak Liang, 62, from Kluang, said the restaurants also offered python soup.

“Kahang is not the only place where protected animal dishes are served. There are also such restaurants in Jementah and Labis.”

Johor National Park Corporation director Abu Bakar Mohd Salleh said he had received reports about such restaurants in Kahang.

He said the price of exotic animals like the tiger in the black market could be between RM100,000 and RM200,000 each “but normally, the meat, teeth, whiskers and sexual organ are sold to different people”.

He dismissed allegations that the tiger meat served in Kahang was from those caught in the Endau-Rompin National Park.

“We have not detected any tiger hunting activities in the Endau-Rompin National Park, except for one case in 2004,” he said.

A researcher working for an NGO said those involved in the smuggling of wild animals around Kahang carried out their activities in a “very organised manner to avoid detection”.

“It is an organised crime,” he said. – Bernama