Alan Green (2)

With support from the Center for Public Integrity and courageous and key funding from the Geraldine Dodge Foundation, journalist Alan Green takes u son a repellant sojourn through the market for exotic animals in the United States. Illegally imported, illegaly taken from the wild, or (too often) cast off by prestigious zoos, they end up as a parts of canned hunts, neglected pets, auction fare for zoo-like roadside attractions or animal processors. The wearying and detailed litany of cases show more build a case that our nation's zoo's catering to patron desire for child animals creates a surplus of adolescent and adult creatures that move from world-class facilities to the lower circles of animal hell.

Mahatma Gandhi — 'The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.'

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