CHINESE STREET FOOD - Live Scorpions, Insects, Tiger Claws
In some Chinese night markets, wide selections of skewered fried insects can be found displayed among more "normal" food choices. These include spiders, large tarantulas, scorpions, cicadas, beetles, silkworms, giant centipedes, and bamboo worms. Dried lizards (like geckos), starfish, and seahorses (signs listed them as ahippocampus) are sometimes offered as well.
In Xi'an, a Tibetan vendor was seen selling exotic animal parts on the street. Tiger claws, bear paws, deer antlers, gazelle horns were among them, and were sold for medicinal purposes.
I gave an upvote & resteem becase it's informative and horrific. I hope people read this article, "Animal Rights In China," by Michael Charles Tobias: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltobias/2012/11/02/animal-rights-in-china/
"Peter Li: Bear farming is arguably China’s most brutal operation. In China today, some
10,000 Asiatic black bears, China’s stateprotected species, are caged for life for extracting bile from their gallbladders through an open wound cut in their stomachs. This brutal surgery procedure often causes irreparable damage to their internal organs.
Scientists have confirmed the many physical and mental traumas of bear farming."
"...In 2005, international animal protection groups exposed
the shocking farming and slaughter practices on the fur animals."
thanks..