A BLOODTHIRSTY British tourist grins with glee as he prepares to hurl a live chicken to hungry crocodiles – and then gets a kick seeing it being ripped to pieces.
The sickeningly cruel “entertainment”, condemned by animal rights groups, is on offer at Siem Reap Crocodile Farm in Cambodia, South-East Asia.
The 21-year-old backpacker from Sheffield, who was at the farm with a pal, had queued up to buy the bird before hurling it to its death.
He then whooped with delight and yelled: “Did you see that big crocodile storm over? He wasn’t messing about – he ripped it apart. One of the legs is still lying there!”
He told our undercover reporter: “That’s what I love about Cambodia. You couldn’t do this back at home.”
Our investigation found that dozens of ghoulish Britons queue up to fling live birds at the crocs on the farm, a few miles from one of Cambodia’s biggest tourist sites, Angkor Wat temple.
Ashley Fruno, a senior campaigner for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, urged holidaymakers to boycott the site. “Even China has banned live feeding,” she said. “Cambodia needs
to take the same step.
"We are also concerned by the conditions at the farms and the suffering crocodiles endure.”
Adrian Butler
Sunday Mirror
If you can stomach the pictures:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/14/tourist-attraction-where-ghoulish-britons-pay-to-throw-live-chickens-to-be-ripped-apart-by-crocs-115875-23342335/
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