Hot America:
Reporter: You said that the ratings of your press conference were comparable to that of Netflix's "Tigers Are In Trouble"?
Trump: Yes
Reporter: The protagonist, a zoo owner, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. He asked for amnesty. Are you going to pardon Joe? He's been charged with the murder of an animal rights activist, but he says he didn't.
Trump: You recommend pardoning him?
Reporter: No, I don't recommend...
Trump: I don't think you will either. I will do research.
When I went to the zoo as a child, I felt that the animals were very pitiful. Later, when I went to the Ocean Park, my mood was more complicated. Those huge bodies were in such a small space, and they were so depressed that they could not even commit suicide. Reminds me of Rilke's "The Leopard - At the Paris Zoo":
Its eyes are caught by the endless iron bars,
so weary,
Nothing can be accommodated.
It seems to have only a thousand iron railings,
There is no universe behind a thousand bars.
In the 1950s, it became popular in the United States to breed beasts that symbolize power and wealth:
1990 boxing champion Tyson walks the tiger:
There was an accident, and Tyson coaxed the white tiger for several hours before he escaped.
In the past, I read biologist Joey Adamson's biography "Elsa in the Wild". Scholars observed and contacted ligers and tigers in the wild. This is the person who truly loves nature and animals.
Circuses, zoos, and sea worlds have brought joy to people, and they have also shown the cruel and selfish side of human nature: they imprison and abuse animals not for survival, but just for entertainment. Better than beasts.
The opening chapter of Raising Tigers is a direct reference to the darkness of human nature:
Those who keep big cats will hurt people with arrows, they are all bastards.
Beast bite is a kind of torture in ancient times. From Xia Jie, who let tigers bite people, to Ivan the Terrible, who magnified bears and bit his subjects for fun, there is no good thing for those who raise wild animals.
Joe is a highly controversial and topical figure: country singer, the kind with guns, downright lunatic, gay, drug addict, magician... In 1999, Joe built a zoo in Oklahoma, after 16 years of Development, raised 277 tigers, and many celebrities like Shaq O'Neal came to join in.
In 2013, a female animal trainer at the zoo had an arm torn off by a tiger. Incredibly, in order to quell the controversy over the mismanagement of the zoo, the trainer only stayed in the hospital for 7 days and returned to work in the zoo only 5 days after the amputation operation: "There is no difficulty that can make me give up. "Joe is the soul and belief of the zoo team. In 2014, Joe married her two 19-year-old husbands.
The Endangered Animals Protection Act of the United States prohibits the sale of tigers, but Joe can always sell those big cats through the underground network. It is too easy to take advantage of the law. His clients include drug lords and small zoos dotted across the United States, none of which are good:
We don't call the police, we use guns!
Tickets for the zoo cost hundreds of dollars a piece, and visitors need to pay extra for playing and taking photos with tigers, leopards and their cubs. The average cub can bring Joe $100,000 in profit.
The brilliance of Raising Tigers is beyond description. Those who raise big cats have unparalleled "charisma" like cult leaders. Some young girls are willing to be their tamers, unpaid handymen, sex partners, and slaves. :
I don't like Joe. I don't like anyone who keeps and sells big beasts.
I really like big cats and should let them go back to nature instead of being your pet and making money.
Joe is also not good to the employees. On the surface, he provides jobs for the homeless and alcoholics, but the salary is very low, the accommodation conditions are poor, and he eats expired meat that the supermarket does not want.
As an animal protectionist, Caro's "Big Cat Rescue" has 3 million followers on Facebook, constantly providing clues and urging law enforcement to crack down on Joe's illegal sale and abuse of endangered animals. She is good at using social media to expand her influence. The live broadcasts of caring for animals often invite celebrities and singers as guests. The number of video views often reaches hundreds of millions. Love big cats, they are "beautiful, wild and free".
Is Carol the Robin Hood of the animal kingdom? Hehe, you think too much.
Carlo rescued tigers everywhere, and built a zoo with the rescued tigers. The employees are all volunteers, and the salary is also saved. It is called protecting rare animals. Only by earning money can we protect more animals.
This is a female classmate with a story: Carlo's billionaire ex-husband mysteriously disappeared, and many people suspect that Carlo was coveting inheritance, murdering his ex-husband and feeding the body to tigers to eat. What the truth is, only God knows.
It's a life-and-death war for lime sellers who don't sell flour: Joe hates Carol so badly for ruining his business and reputation that at one point he wants to throw grenades at her zoo from a helicopter. Carroll accused Joe of infringing on his trademark and reputation. The latter was sentenced to pay $1 million in damages. Seeing that the Lifeblood Zoo could not keep it, Joe's heart sank. Someone took the opportunity to help, but it turned out to be a bigger trap.
In 2020, Joe was jailed for 22 years for buying a murder and killing seven tigers.
Not a single animal has benefited from this war, and they still repeat their sad fate.
There are only 4,000 tigers left in nature, and tens of thousands of tigers are raised in the United States.
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