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Zoo sells tiger bone wine
By Wang Xiang |
March 30, 2010, Tuesday
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A SECRET trade in "tiger bone wine" in a northeast China zoo was revealed today, raising questions about animal parks in the wake of a nationwide uproar triggered by 11 rare tigers who starved to death in Shenyang two weeks ago.
The centerpiece of the Northeast China Tiger Park in Heilongjiang Province is a huge fish tank containing liquor with a tiger's skeleton inside, according to a local news Website today.
Park officials sold the liquor for 780 yuan (US$114) for every 500 grams, according to the report.
A park staffer said the 780 yuan liquor was the cheapest. The best kind cost 2,880 yuan a bottle, each containing a fraction of genuine tiger bone, the report said. It was sold as a miraculous medicine that could strengthen bones.
The wine seller said the skeleton had been steeped in the liquor for at least three years, and the wine was good for treating rheumatism.
Trading tiger parts was banned in China in 1993, although tiger bones have long been used in traditional medicine.
The centerpiece of the Northeast China Tiger Park in Heilongjiang Province is a huge fish tank containing liquor with a tiger's skeleton inside, according to a local news Website today.
Park officials sold the liquor for 780 yuan (US$114) for every 500 grams, according to the report.
A park staffer said the 780 yuan liquor was the cheapest. The best kind cost 2,880 yuan a bottle, each containing a fraction of genuine tiger bone, the report said. It was sold as a miraculous medicine that could strengthen bones.
The wine seller said the skeleton had been steeped in the liquor for at least three years, and the wine was good for treating rheumatism.
Trading tiger parts was banned in China in 1993, although tiger bones have long been used in traditional medicine.
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