World Animal Protection (WAP) has released a report documenting the heartbreaking suffering inflicted on big cats farmed throughout South Africa and Asia for the traditional Asian medicine industry.
“Trading Cruelty – how captive big cat farming fuels the traditional Asian medicine industry” describes how thousands of big cats are bred and killed every year only to be made into wines, capsules, gels, and balms — products that have never been proven to have any healing properties.
“Does the life of an animal mean nothing at all,” asks Dr. Jan Schmidt-Burbach, global wildlife advisor at WAP. “These big cats are exploited for greed and money – and for what? For medicine that’s never been proven to have any curative properties whatsoever. For that reason alone, it’s unacceptable. At each stage of their lives they suffer immensely – this makes it an absolute outrage.”
Lions are the main focus in South Africa, where cubs are either taken from their mothers in the wild or bred within special facilities. First, they are exploited at petting farms, then used for “walking with the lions” experiences, and eventually murdered at canned hunting game farms for a fee. Their body parts are used as trophies and shipped to Asia to be used in traditional medicines.
China has huge factory-style farms, where dozens of big cats are kept in tiny cells with only the basics to survive. Many discovered as part of WAP’s investigation were emaciated. Some facilities use their captives as entertainment, forcing them to perform in shows and charging visitors to have their photos taken with the miserable animals.
“Many of these animals will only ever see the world through metal bars, they will only ever feel hard concrete beneath their paws, and they will never get to experience their most basic predatory instinct – a hunt,” says Dr. Schmidt-Burbach. “Instead, they are taken away from their mothers as tiny cubs, forced to interact with people or perform tricks, to be then shot or slaughtered so that their bodies can be harvested for products.”
With so many big cats sourced from these horrific farms, you may assume that fewer animals are taken from the wild. This isn’t the reality. WAP discovered that nine out of ten people surveyed in Vietnam — and more than half of Chinese consumers — would rather consume products from animals taken from the wild than farmed. This shows that big cat farming is actually a driving force in the poaching of these magnificent endangered cats.
While the report documents enormous demand for big cat parts for traditional medicine, WAP also highlights some positive statistics. Their studies showed that 67 percent of Vietnamese residents would be willing to try herbal or synthetic alternatives to products sourced from big cats — if the products were reasonably priced.
The organization, along with myriad others around the world, continues to fight for the animals, with a focus on changing attitudes around the use of big cats in traditional Asian medicine.
“This should not be the life for these incredible animals – either in farms or entertainment venues,” states Dr. Schmidt-Burbach. “These animals are majestic apex predators – they are not playthings – nor are they medicine. Big cats are wild animals and they deserve a life worth living.”
it is enough
The need to protect these beautiful wild creatures is more and more urgent. Please let the authorities know how we feel about this outrageous behaviour of some Eastern people
Big cats are the most beautiful beings on Earth and highly intelligent. The need and deserve freedom to move around, live life fully, and especially from exploitation and torture.
Asian medicine using cats has proven to be Garbage in past results!
No!!! To farming lions or wild for this garbage.
It’s a disgrace to be a human being.
Our comments are to be peaceful and family friendly. Then I can’t comment. What’s the point. We are not responding to these petitions to be peaceful. We are on here to honestly and truthfully discuss our outrage. Who can remain peaceful? That’s like asking a baby not to cry. This is the one and only peaceful response I’ve done on a petition and it will most likely be my last. So I guess I will just have to say punish the morons. Was that peaceful enough?
These so called Asian medicine is nothing but only to make money while selling them to idiotic morons. Most of these people are brainwashed to think that they get bigger body parts if they consume Tiger private parts. They are being given to understand that if they drink those strong animals biles or any other body parts as medicine their sicknesses will be cured. the list goes on…so pathetic. These Poor animals are being so heinously murdered for absolutely without any valid reason.
These scumbags must be gathered & lock them up or do the same & exact punishment in return. Something MUST be done to these Criminals. People & their Governing bodies should not be living like puppeteers without taking actions against these criminals & blood baths they commit.
Wake up people this is a new era we live in. Not the stone age. PUNISH THE CRIMINALS. SAVE THE PLANET EARTH & IT’S INHABITANTS ASAP.
World Animal Protection (WAP) has released a horrible and sadistic report documenting the heartbreaking torture and suffering inflicted on the innocent and helpless big cats farmed throughout South Africa and Asia for the traditional Asian vile and evil fake medicine industry.
“Trading torture – how captive big cat farming fuels the traditional vile and evil Asian fake medicine industry” describes how thousands of big defenceless and innocent cats are bred and murdered every year only to be made into the vile and evil wines, capsules, gels, and balms — products that have never been proven to have any healing properties.The Asian and lowlife countries who commit this sadism and evilness for their vile and evil fake Medicine Industry are an abomination of the vilest of deliberate heinous animal torture, suffering and an agonising death and this sadism and evilness must be stopped and banned worldwide.
The atrocities are sadism and evilness at its worst.
Abso0lutely sickening and unforgivable.
No precious animals are safe from these animal torturing lowlife monsters from hell.
Eradication from our planet is a must of these animal murdering monsters from hell and the Asian monsters
who commit this sadism and evilness for their vile and evil fake Medicine Industries. Which is purely for the blood money and their pure GREED just for their fake and evil claims.
Die you vile and evil animal murdering monsters from hell and burn in hell for an eternity, which you vile and evil monsters deserve. I pray you monsters from hell die in excruiciating agony the same as your defenceless and innocent victims endured.
THEY ARE THE MONSTERS ON OUR PLANET EARTH AND MUST BE ERADICATED ASAP.
PLEASE SAVE THE PRECIOUS AND DEFENCELESS WILDLIFE AND ALL THE ANIMALS FROM THIS SADISM AND EVILNESS.
The worse thing that happened to this planet is man. They are so evil, that it
is a disgrace to be a human being. I’m ashamed to be a human being.
When will these people wake up and get out of the dark ages? What is the purpose and the sense of them going to school if they teach nonsense like this. I can’t believe in this day and age ….these morons are still passing down these stupid notions they have. All the injustice animals have to suffer and go through because of the stuipidity of the human race and their outrageous belief systems. Makes me cry. Start turning the tables on those heartless, pathetic imbaciles and start making potions out of their body parts and call it medicine. Spread the stupid word around and see how many brainless twits start believing it. Of course I would rather they off themselves and leave the animals alone.
A large part of the problem for animals worldwide is so-called Asian Medicine .
It is fucking disgusting bullshit .
GET RID OF ASIAN MEDICINE AND STOP PERSRCUTING ANIMALS !!
BIG CATS are bigger versions of SMALL CATS… The treatment is horrific and considered disgusting by the majority of the free world.
The INTERNET has allowed us to see what they have been HIDING for centuries.
WE are APPALLED!!!
This will not continue and we will NEVER forgive them for their behaviour.
as humans, we have a responsibility to provide humane treatment to animals
PLEASE HELP WILDLIFE. DEMAND NO MORE ANIMAL ABUSES! NO WILDLIFE KILLING…NO ANIMAL SHOWS! PLEASE BOYCOTT ANIMAL ENTERTAINMENT. HELP SAVE WILDLIFE.
Please stop this inhumane “practice” ASAP. Why do Asians always treat animals with such cruelty if they’re not killing them to eat them they’re killing them for “medicinal” purpose.
Why is this still being allowed? So much animal testing still done, cannot be the same results if tested on humans. Dont care what anyone says.
Please find away to end such needless torture and death to these animals.
Please find away to end such needless torture and death to these animals.
If you know of, or even suspect that an animal is being abused in any way will you please report it immediately. You have seen what some cruel and mindless people can do-would you like it on your conscience that you knew and did nothing?
Ban traditional medicine that uses wild cats and other animals.
Whether it’s a big cat on a factory farm in China or a cow on a factory farm in America, suffering is suffering. Please go vegan & use plant-based herbal products. Your choices do make a difference & will help to end this unimaginable cruelty to animals.
Spare the lives of wild cats used for traditional medicine
Such barbarism simply beggars the mind
Stop this horrific barbaric cruelty now!
Animals should be cared for, not used!!
Cruelty needs to STOP!
We are in the 21st century, why is this “traditional medicine” still being used. Animals are living being like us, but in a different form. Stop this and move on to modern medicine practices.
Breaks my heart to read this, I no longer have faith in humans who seek to abuse or destroy all magnificent creatures. Am so sick of these countries that allow such suffering to go on.
The Chinese are EVIL people !!!
Last place on earth I would visit!!!
Please stop doing this.
tratraditional medicine consists in myth and who knows what else. The keratin of a rhino horn is the same material as human nails. Eating a dog to cool the blood is bunk. If our blood cools we are dying. If our blood is cool, we are reptiles. Eating bull balls or snake is not an aphrodisiac. No more so than eating clams or mussels. It is in the head. Sexual ability is helped by interest and practice and listening to one ‘s partner. Killing an elephant for it tusks to make jewelry or a statue is leading the destruction of one of the iconic megafaunas. Is there no voice loud enough to be heard and stop these harmful “ traditions”.
Asian capitalistic corruption and selfish excess is decimating virtually EVERY animal species on earth. While every country has it’s animal cruelty, Asian countries are unique in that they traffick animals from every part of the world for their massive money-making “traditional medicine” BS. Their branches of corruption and death extend into every country on earth. They will be solely responsible for several extinctions.
What horrible heartless creatures these humans are.
Please stop this cruelty. Let animals live the way nature intended, not man.
That’s disgusting. It’s bad enough beautiful animals that were here first are becoming extinct but BS medicine?
Don’t believe it. Stop this madness!
Animals should not suffer such cruel dangerous experiences by humans and all Cultures. This should be illegal. It is sad to think that there are some humans that are so cruel.
Please stop these horrible practices.
Please recognize that there aren’t any benefits from these products and these creatures deserve a better life.
There is no benefit to using big cat parts as medicine. It is a sad tale of misinformation and greed. Stop killing these magnificent cats for an inaccurate excuse.
experimentos tontos que no llevan a nada solo queda el dolor y sufrimientos de los animales
Asians and their ridiculous ideas on cures are the root of most of our animal poaching, and envoronmental.proplems. it’s a culture that should be ashamed of thus aspect of their history. It’s outdated. Moronic and abusive.