Baby orangutans in Chinese zoo also victims of tainted milk

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: New Strait Times (Malaysia)

The baby formula scandal has spread to animals as two baby orangutans fed with tainted milk powder in a zoo showed early symptoms of kidney stones, Xinhua news agency said quoting a local media report.
An African lion cub may also be sicked, but the test result is yet to be confirmed, a veterinarian surnamed Shan said, according to Thursday’s Youth Times.

The three animal victims in the toxic milk scandal, which had killed four children and left many others sickened across the country, were raised in the Hangzhou Safari Park of east China’s Zhejiang Province.

The two orangutans, 15-month-old Qimao and his three-year-old brother Liumao, and the 3-month-old lion were sent to Zhangxu Animal Hospital in Hangzhou, the provincial capital, on Wednesday for a medical checkup.

Read more: http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/NewsBreak/20080926125759/Article/index_html

[WriteDown]

1. I'm sure their hands or feet can be harvested...

for some sort of "ancient" aphrodisiac.

[Bette Noir]

2. Poor babies.

I hope the Chinese gummint does what it can to restrain the unrestrained greed of Chinese capitalists. It's like England in the 19th Century over there.

Maybe we can send them copies of Sinclair Lewis's "The Jungle"? That's what got our country to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act.