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An investigation by World Animal Protection, a non-profit organization, revealed the horrible conditions that thousands of big cats – mainly lions and tigers – are forced to suffer on industrial farms in South Africa and Asia.

These cats are raised and then killed for parts of their bodies, including bones and blood, to meet the ever-increasing demand for traditional medicines in countries such as China and Vietnam.

The body parts are transformed into all kinds of products, including wines, capsules, gels and balms, which would be beneficial in the treatment of everything from arthritis to meningitis.

According to a report titled "Commerce of Cruelty: How Captive Husbandry Rearing Feeds the Industry of Traditional Asian Medicine", these animals are forced to undergo various forms of cruelty before being killed .

For example, researchers visited facilities in China where more than a thousand big cats were kept in tiny pens and cages.

"Many were clearly emaciated with their very visible ribs and backs," the authors wrote. "The cruel and restrictive conditions have caused such great distress in the animals that many of them have walked for hours in their extremely small enclosures", while others have been mutually abused.

"Stimulating and automutilating – usually limb and tail bites – in big cats are abnormal behaviors," the authors said. "These are responses to confinement and stress that do not happen in the wild where lions and tigers can roam freely in areas ranging from 7 to 100 km (7.1 km)."

In contrast, some of the enclosures the team saw were only 13 feet by 23. In addition, these facilities provided only the minimum amounts of food and water needed for the survival of cats before 39, they have reached the age of dying.

In countries like South Africa, researchers found that lion cubs and tigers were used before the market for tourist activities. Children – who are raised on farms or sometimes torn from their mothers in the wild – are often raised in children's zoos where they are used as an attraction. In addition, juvenile lions are sometimes used in tourist experiences "walking around with lions". They can then be sent to facilities where they are hunted for the sport.

"Lions farms in South Africa often offer the handling and walking of lion cubs to tourists," the authors wrote. "But trophy hunting is their main business where they charge $ 12,000 to $ 15,000 per elimination." Hunters are usually only interested in lion heads, farms can make extra profits by selling corpses to exporters "under the unique" Skeleton Quota "system of South Africa.

"In Thailand, many tiger breeding facilities also offer tourist experiences with animals," the authors wrote. "These include feeding cubs, hugging and exposing tigers that cause tremendous stress to animals through forced interactions with hundreds of people every day." Young tigers are primarily used for tourist interactions and the fate of adults is not clear.However, cases of illegal trade in tiger products from Thailand suggest a link with the trade of traditional medicine or luxury goods. "

Due to the growing demand for traditional Asian medicine, more and more big cats are being designed in fast breeding facilities where females are forced to produce many more young than in the wild.

Inbreeding is common in these establishments, resulting in the birth of lions and tigers with abnormalities such as missing limbs, painfully deformed feet, legs and face, as well as vision, hearing problems. and breathing. The researchers even noted that some cubs were still born.

In addition, "early separations by speed selectors cause great distress to both mothers and cubs," the authors wrote. "In the wild, the young would normally stay with their mother for up to two years, but in the breeding facilities they are removed from their mother a few days or weeks later, and the breeding cycle begins again. Sriracha Thailand is proud to say that they have achieved birth rates up to 6 to 9 times higher than in nature. "

Jan Schmidt-Burbach, veterinary advisor and specialist of the world's fauna and flora, said in a statement: "Does not an animal's life mean anything? These big cats are exploited for the sake of life." money and greed and they suffer tremendously at every stage of their lives. "