Chinese zoo stages tiger attacks for tourists

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Chinese Zoo Stages Tiger Attacks for Tourists.

The headline is a little misleading. The "tiger attacks" are staged by dumping a cow out the back of a truck into the tiger enclosure, which is an open area that the buses full of tourists drive around. There are several warnings about graphic content, but I didn't see anything gross. Upsetting probably, but not gross.

I haven't heard the audio, so I'm not sure if this is being sold as enrichment or if its unapologetically for entertainment value. Suffice it to say, this wouldn't happen in a North American zoo.

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I think there is a middle ground; maybe we have lost sight of it as we depart from the traditional connection to food sources. As a kid, I had trouble with seeing piggies I had bottle-fed from birth being turned out with the hogs intended for butchering; I think I gradually came to a "circle-of-life" mentality because that example was in front of me constantly. (with only a few sojourns into vegetarianism, LOL)
It isn't a lack of respect for food animals so much as a different mindset than one maintains for companion animals.

I think I would happily eat a human before I would eat a dog; dogs are so much more sensitive, fair, and intelligent than most humans.