It wasn’t being sold as food but turned into traditional medicine. The restaurant owner is of course guilty of being part of this but the sad part is really the pervasive lack of education that allows people to kill endangered animals in a false belief that there is some medical value to be had.
HANOI, Vietnam – Police have confiscated the carcass of an endangered wild tiger from a Hanoi restaurant where it was being boiled down to make an expensive traditional medicine.
The Tuoi Tre newspaper said restaurant owner Nguyen Thi Thanh was rendering the animal to make tiger bone paste , which sells for a few hundred dollars per ounce ($1,000 per 100 grams) and is used as a traditional pain killer.
Thanh told police after the raid that she bought the 330-pound (150-kilogram) carcass for 180 million dong ($8,500).
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