This is dreadful:
"BUHUSI, ROMANIA – Just up the hill in this forgotten manufacturing town, it's feeding time at the rundown Buhusi Zoo, tucked behind a bouquet of Soviet-style apartment buildings. Mihai Gheorghiu, the deputy director, cracks open the freezer and the stench of meat tumbles out. As if on cue, a rumbling emerges from the cages.
He hauls out a few chunks of horse meat and drops them on the grass with a thud. A large bear peeks his snout through the bars on top of the cage. The caretakers stack the meat into a wheelbarrow and, as they do several times a week, roll it through the grounds to feed the lions, baboons, and bears. "
The article goes on with a quote from an American living there:
"There is an overall apathy that is deeply ingrained in the population," says Christopher Troxler, the American executive director of the Romania Think Tank in Bucharest. 'Asta este' ["it is what it is"] is an institutionalized statement."
As far as I am concerned, cruelty and apathy are related problems in this case
...and the latter does not excuse the former.
The full article can be found at CSM.
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