white tiger breeding should be illegal

lets ask ourselves: what is the meaning of conservation? protecting our natural resources. white tigers are a result of captive inbreeding and rarely would exist without the interference of humans. white tigers are not a subspecies. conservation is saving, and we created white tigers. They are not endangered. they wouldn't even hardly exist in the wild anyway. its not preserving the tigers if they didn't exist in the first place. in the wild, there is rarely a sighting of a white tiger. In the last 100 years, there have been 12 reports of wild white tiger sightings , the last of which happened in 1959. "There are many species of dogs, for example, that would never survive without humans, but we allow their breeding" I might ask my opponent, do these dogs have health defects that will effect the quality of life? there are only a known population of 4,000 Bengal tigers left in the wild. we should be focusing on conserving those tigers.we should focus on a healthy population of these animals, rather than a unhealthy population of white tigers. even though 1 in 15,000 wild Bengal tigers would be born in the wild as a white tiger, that has nothing to do with the fact that we need to stop breeding them. I have no intention of going out in the wild and getting rid of the white tigers that exist. but what I am saying is even though we cant control natural white tiger births but we don't have to intentionally breed them. the white tigers that are inbreed in zoos have crossed eyes and may have mental retardation. we intentionally breed these tigers knowing they wont have the quality of life compared to that of a Bengal tiger. for example zabu, a white tiger has hairlip and cleft palate. which means she has no upper lip to protect her teeth. "....every white tiger in the U.S. is not only the result of repeated inbreeding of genetically defective animals but, even worse, is a hybrid or crossbred animal. Thus, anyone involved in breeding and/or exhibiting white tigers is doing a great disservice to honest conservation and preservation efforts to save the five remaining and endangered subspecies of tigers barely clinging to survival" - dr. dan laughlin http://www.greendiary.com... they keep on saying they are conserving. but believe me, its all for the money. According to Tilson, white tigers are an aberration artificially bred and proliferated by a few zoos, private breeders, and circus folks, who do this for economic rather than conservation reasons. why do people breed these poor animals that are sentenced to life in a cage? there is an easy answer. these creatures are sold for nearly 60,000 dollars a piece. its all for the money not the conservation. as harsh as this may be, there isn't a place provided by nature for these tigers. there white coat is robbing them of their ability to camouflage. "As regards to the cubs killed because of the lack of their desirability, that is again an argument against irresponsible breeding, not against the breeding in the first place." what I might say in response, if white tigers are irresponsibly bred, then why not spare those other cubs lives. if breeding white tigers was illegal then those innocent cubs would be spared. what my opponents argument might suggest, is that we should let these breeders breed white cubs and then throw the un-white cubs away. the deformities of some white tigers are so severe , zoos often kill them or they re discarded. all because of the terrible inbreeding. we created this problem. we caused all of these animals to be killed, no we caused tiger deaths that were unnecessary. 100 years ago, 100,000 tigers existed. those numbers are rapidly dwindling. we are killing tigers rather than conserving them. every bit of love you have toward animals, put toward stopping the abuse of white tigers.