1000 Flowers for the Planet - #217 Rally Against Lion Bone Trading
[By guest contributor, Stephanie Keys]
You may have already read the flower regarding canned hunting (Flower #92). ‘Breeders’ fetch a high price for this ridiculous so-called ‘sport’.
A bi-product of this, where the people running these canned hunting rackets
earn even more money from our endangered creatures, is in their bones. Lion
bones are used in the making of tiger wine, in which the bones are ground up
and are meant to cure all sorts of ailments. It may seem to make little sense to
use lion bones in tiger wine, but the reasoning is this; tigers have been
poached to the point of near extinction and so their remains are becoming hard
to come by. Because of this, makers of tiger wine are substituting tiger bones
with lion bones. But doesn’t this seem like a bit of false advertising? If it’s
tiger bones that are meant to cure the illnesses, then substituting them for
lion bones wouldn’t work. UNLESS! It never worked in the first place – and as
there is no scientific backup for this wine actually helping with anything to
do with the function of a human being at all, it seems more than likely that
this has been the case all along. However, if people keep buying the product,
it will continue to be manufactured. This leaves our lions AND our tigers in
jeopardy, unless something can be done. The word needs to be spread about this
substituting, and people need to be educated that this ‘wine’ does nothing to
help them, it’s all a placebo designed to take their hard earned cash.
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