Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891620282 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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A shocking exposé of the black market animal trade I've read many books on animal rights as well as primate studies, but this book has perhaps shocked me the most with its tales of supposedly reputable zoos selling their "surplus" animals to dealers who then place them in game reserves where they are shot for sport. Don't believe it? Read this book; Green has clearly researched his subject matter with journalistic deter. "Sad state of Affairs" according to Gaspard Marsala. This book is really a reality test on the cruelty and indifference of humans towards animals that no longer serve a purpose. i guess i always suspected that the road side operator was less about conservation and more about exploitation however how so called accredited/professional zoos are part of an animals slow road to obscurity in a back yard zoo or worse is really w. A concerned citizen said Brutal, but fair and insightful!. Bravo, Mr. Green! This meticulously researched book cuts right to the heart of the incredibly cruel and profitable trade in exotic species in the U.S. Although it's tough reading at times, this brutal but fair account rips the lid off a trade which can only exist if all parties conspire to look the other way regarding the origin and disposition of these unfortunate anim
--Gregory McNamee. Zoos are places where animals are protected, kept safe from the ravages of the outside world and sheltered from extinction, right? Not necessarily, writes investigative reporter Alan Green, who takes his readers behind the bars in Animal Underworld to tell an unsettling tale of deception and cruelty. That story opens at a zoo in northern Virginia, one of many such places around the United States in which black bears, once an exotic sight, have become a too-common commodity. There is simply no place for them, Green writes, and the bears have economic worth only for their parts--the claws for jewelry, the flesh for resta
This shocking and groundbreaking report on the trafficking and inhumane treatment of rare and exotic animals exposes a whole network of people and institutions more interested in profit than in animal welfarefrom zoos and wildlife parks to exotic meat dealers and Amish farmers