"One hundred tigers and 2,000 alligators have been flown from Thailand to China to grace an animal park where visitors will be able to admire and eat some of the creatures displayed"
"We will also build restaurants to let people taste alligator meat, pharmacies for alligator medicine and build leather processing centres," she said by telephone, adding live alligators would also be displayed.
"After we have bred tigers for a few years, we might have over 1,000 of them. Tourists are likely to eat tiger meat at Sanya," she said, referring to the beach resort on tropical Hainan off mainland China's south coast.
The Web site www.sina.com.cn published a Jiang Nan Times story with the headline: "A hundred tigers arrive in Hainan, Sanya to allow eating tiger meat openly."
posted on December 27, 2002 05:56:04 PM
Can you see this happening at Sea World or the L.A. Zoo? Observing the animals...then ordering them for lunch... Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on December 28, 2002 04:22:50 AM
I've eaten alligator once, at a little French restaurant in San Jose. VERY salty. Wouldn't order it again. Escargo (sp) is pretty good.
