Vietnam police seize tiger carcass from restaurant: When will responsible humans confront selfish species destroyers?

"Bush Meat" is available to diners in the UK in several restaurants. Obviously it is delivered frozen, but where such things are on the Menu they include kangaroo, ostrich, biltong, crocodile and maybe some things you might not want to think about.

I'm not sure how I'd know whether I was really served what the menu described.

WAITRESS!!!!!

I'll have Crocodile with chips!!

Make it snappy!

Make it snappy!

I would prefer it if my crocodile was decidedly UNsnappy. I value my appendages.

Another thing that irritates me about "tiger bones" is this nonsense belief that tiger bones actually work as a pain reliever. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that a tiger bone is any better at relieving pain than any other type of bone. But, because it's a tiger bone, they can charge exorbitant prices. If you could grind up a mouse bone, how much money do you think they'd make?

So these poor noble cats are being slaughtered for a) a remedy that probably doesn't even work and b) to further the self-enlightened financial advancement of some schmucks with dollar signs in their eyes.

It's not that I would condone the slaughter of rare tigers for any reason, but this isn't even for a good cause.

We should all deplore the disappearance of species from the Earth due to predatory humans, but there is more than one view of such matters. British farmers would like to eliminate badgers, which they believe spread sickness among cattle. The soft cuddly tiger of Cornflake adverts and Disney films is less valued in remote villages of India where the animal has a less than amusing tendency to eat people.