Comments on: Tang Du Zoology Restaurant Review, Taiyuan, China

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By: Food Nut

Food Nut — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:49:47 +0000

In reply to Jeanette McDermott. Yes selling bear paw is terrible! I suggest you contact the restaurant directly. I just took the picture and ask the waitress what it was and know nothing else.

By: Jeanette McDermott

Jeanette McDermott — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:10:28 +0000

All of the bear species that are endemic to Asia are listed on the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species. It is an international crime to traffic and trade in species on the Red List, yet the “food delicacy” bear paws are clearly on the menu of the Tang Du Zoology Restaurant, as seen on your foodnut.com website and the Flickr site for the Tang Du Zoology Restaurant.

How does this restaurant obtain fresh bear paws if the bears in Asia are listed on the IUCN Red LIst? Are the bears poached from the wild? Are the bears bred in captivity for the purpose of commercializing their severed paws?

Please respond to this email publicly and to my private email address that I have left on this site.

By: Maryse Dumas

Maryse Dumas — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:35:19 +0000

With all the exotic fruits and vegetables, herbs and spices, I think you should omit food of animals, turtles and other living creatures that are endagered. Now is a time for conscious eating. I am shocke that you include bear paw on your list.

By: Sheri Reese

Sheri Reese — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:25:16 +0000

How horrible to kill an endangered species for it’s paws. I realize it is something that has been in your culture for a very long time, but you are killing off a species for one of it’s body parts. Please, sometimes we have to make some changes for the betterment of the world. You seem to serve abundant food and people seem to love it. They will not miss that you have eliminated bear paws and you will make the world better for it.

By: Silke Dallmann

Silke Dallmann — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:14:19 +0000

I was disgusted to see that you serve bear paw!!!!!!!!!!! Bears are an endangered species and need protected, not killed for their food!! There is plenty of other food, there is absolutely no excuse for killing and eating endangered animals!