Thus The Guardian today. “Police seize body of a freshly-killed tiger and discover video evidence of electrocution and torture after raid in Zhanjiang,” explains the newspaper. Apparently, more than ten tigers were recently killed as “visual feasts” in China to entertain officials and rich business people. Local officials and prominent businesspeople gathered to watch the tigers being killed as “eye-openers” to show off their social stature. Video footage of a killing two years ago showed a caged tiger having an electrified iron object prodded into his mouth with a wooden stick and passing out after being electrocuted for more than ten seconds. Tiger body parts are a part of the fun. They have long been considered an important ingredient of traditional Chinese medicine on account of their supposed capacity to strengthen the human body. Decades of trafficking and habitat destruction have cut tiger numbers from around a hundred-thousand a century ago to about three-thousand today. Welcome to mass extinctions on planet earth!