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Millions of dollars for old bones

11/21/2013

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Karl writes:



Value additions to lion bones sold into the Traditional Chinese Medicine Market:



-   Trophy hunter in SA books a lion ‘hunt’ of a captive borne cat for approximately U$ 8-25 000 dollar (the cost of hunting a female are a fraction of the cost of hunting a male)

-   The taxidermist in collaboration with the hunting company arranges for the sale of the skeleton to a large scale buyer in Laos for  U$ 1500 per skeleton

-   The importer sells skeletons in bags to Vietnamese buyers for  U$ 700-800  per kg ( a hundred kilo lion would yield about 18 kgs of  bone) or a sales price of about U$ 15 000.

-   Vietnamese buyers from Ha Tinh province buy the lion bones by the ton and make down payments in the hundred thousands of dollars

-   Bones are shipped across the Laos - Vietnam border with no CITES permits and in contravention of the treaty

-   In Vietnam  a 15 kg skeleton of a lion is mixed with approx. 6 kgs of turtle shell, deer antler and monkey bone and then the boiled down in large pots over a three day period

-   This yields approx. 6-7 kg of tiger cake which is then cut into chocolate like bars of 100 grams  resulting into 60 or 70 portions which will be marketed as TIGER BONE CAKE.

-   Each bar will be sold at a price of around U$ 1000 buyers who believe in  the value of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the myth associated with the consumption of “tiger cake” which in most cases is added to a  glass of rice wine.

The skeleton of U$ 1500 will have been turned in a value added on product (with the addition of some more bone material of other species) of some U$ 60-70 000.


Value added.

-   Trophy hunter in SA books a lion ‘hunt’ of a captive borne cat for approximately U$ 8-25 000 dollar (the cost of hunting a female are a fraction of the cost of hunting a male)

-   The taxidermist in collaboration with the hunting company arranges for the sale of the skeleton to a large scale buyer in Laos for  U$ 1500 per skeleton

-   The importer sells skeletons in bags to Vietnamese buyers for  U$ 700-800  per kg ( a hundred kilo lion would yield about 18 kgs of  bone) or a sales price of about U$ 15 000.

-   Vietnamese buyers from Ha Tinh province buy the lion bones by the ton and make down payments in the hundred thousands of dollars

-   Bones are shipped across the Laos - Vietnam border with no CITES permits and in contravention of the treaty

-   In Vietnam  a 15 kg skeleton of a lion is mixed with approx. 6 kgs of turtle shell, deer antler and monkey bone and then the boiled down in large pots over a three day period

-   This yields approx. 6-7 kg of tiger cake which is then cut into chocolate like bars of 100 grams  resulting into 60 or 70 portions which will be marketed as TIGER BONE CAKE.

-   Each bar will be sold at a price of around U$ 1000 buyers who believe in  the value of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the myth associated with the consumption of “tiger cake” which in most cases is added to a  glass of rice wine.

The skeleton of U$ 1500 will have been turned in a value added on product (with the addition of some more bone material of other species) of some U$ 60-70 000.



3 Comments
Michelle
11/21/2013 09:16:08 pm

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Monika Koestler
11/23/2013 03:29:44 pm

Is there no end to the Horrors People (so-called humans) will perpetrate on animals and all for the sake of "Sport". Killing is not a Sport and it's time the world realized this. When all the beautiful animals are no more because we killed them all - what will our children and grandchildren say of us?

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paula
1/17/2014 03:43:35 am

I cannot understand anyone wanting to kill for fun and a tropy at the end of it. Why can't humans understand there are no magical properties in animal parts! Sorry but I find it SICK!

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