Not g-r-r-r-eat...Chinese parks sell dead tiger wine
BBC News reports that animal parks in China are selling "tiger bone wine" as a tonic. The drink, made from tiger corpses soaked in rice wine, is supposed to give relief from various ailments including rheumatism, arthritis and male virility issues.
The sale of the wrong-in-every-way-imaginable hooch was discovered when researchers from the Environmental Investigation Agency found it being openly advertised at 2 different animal parks. When confronted, park management said that the dead tigers had died from fighting other tigers. They also showed investigators a "permit" from the government, although it wasn't possible to determine if the permit was genuine.
Tigers, of course, are one of the most endangered species on the planet, with only some 3,500-7,500 left in the wild. And it's not enough that humans have killed or locked up most of them; now we're turning the few that are left into spurious elixirs for erectile dysfunction.
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