TNAG-0469-FCO40-534-Legislation-for-protection-of-wild-life-in-Hong-Kong-1974 — Page 121

PENN

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pour it on the civet cat. All over the civet cat.

a few minutes it's paralized.

And in

As well as scalding, civets can be strangled in a wire noose slipped into the cano, or they can be drowned in boiling water, cage and all, which makes it easier to remove the hair. Sometimes the animals are first plied with Chinese wine through a bamboo tube. I was given a very matter of fact account of feathers being plucked from a drunken bird of prey while it was still alive. Pangolin scales are removed from the living animal by hitting them back against the way they lie.

Barbaric practices were a feature of traditional feasts in China. Bears' paws, or gooses foot were grilled on a hot plate in front of the guests

these delicacies then being sliced from the living

creature.

Frozen bears paws are on sale in the Hong Kong Communist stores now, and we don't know what uses imported live bears are put to. However - several hundred monkeys arrive annually in Hong Kong from China, and we have quite convincing reports that monkey brain is still eaten in the traditional manner - out of the live monkey caged in a hole in the table centre. Fortunately, educated young Chinese are increasingly ropelled by such practices.

Chan

Shave the hair of the monkey and then get the hammer or whatever it is, knock off the monkey, get the brains out.

Penn

You knock off the top of the head?

Chan

The top of the head. So you can hear the monkey screaming and

jumping, and it's too cruel on that.....

Lam

They pick out the brain with a spoon. And some people mix it

with some wine, and swallow it.

Penn

Some wine?

Lam

Yup. But my friend told me it was too terrible to see and it madc him so upset. Because it was so terrible. When he saw the monkey was still alive, he thought it was so terrible and it made him so upset. That's the Chinese way to eat it.