[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

My own parents were in China a month ago. They saw such disgusting practices as "entertainment" in many places in China. They are accepted as commonplace. One popular act is to have fake "traditional chinese fisherman" sitting in rivers to entertain foreigners on boat tours who then have to tip these performers. These "fishermen" would have a flock of pelican like birds (chained together by invisible fishing wire so they can't escape). These fishermen would pretend they have mastered the art of getting these pelicans to fish for them when in fact, their gullets have been tied off (almost to the point of asphyxiation) so that they can barely breathe and never actually swallow. Then they will have a "net" under the water (that people aren't supposed to know is there) full of fish. They will throw these birds off their raft into the water and the starving thin birds will surface with fish and try desperately to swallow them but they can't since their necks are tied off and they literally choke until the performer removes the fish, gets his tips, then later throws back the fish.

I was in China about 2 weeks ago and saw that too. It actually isn't as bad as you described them though.