DEMAND HUMANE TREATMENT OF BEARS IN CHINA

(Information courtesy of Professor Taimie Bryant at UCLA School of Law)

 

Please copy the entire message and list below into an e-mail and add your name to the end of the list, which calls for the immediate end of horrific "Bile Farms" in China.  Then send the message to as many people as possible. Please cut and paste the message, as forwarding creates a backlog of arrows to the left of the text.

*Once this list reaches 100, please send to ramona@unikey.com.br
Thank you for helping!

 

"We ask the Chinese government for compassion. Today in China 10,000 bears are kept prisoner for extracting bile form their gall bladders.  The bears are kept in a horizontal position, in cages that look rather like coffins.  They wear a metal collar and are held down by pressure bars.  A catheter is introduced into their body that continuously absorbs the liquid from their gall bladders. The bears cannot change their position and remain in this condition of permanent pain between 15 and 20 years! 

We cannot allow this cruelty, torture and barbarism to continue and be part of the life of these poor bears for another minute. With their paw they take some food through a little opening in the cage. To quench their thirst they have to stretch their tongue to lick the bars of their prison.  They suffer excruciating pain, as they have to stay for an average of 15 years in the same position that deforms their bones. We are talking about 15 years or 180 months, or 5,475 days, or 131,400 hours or 78,844,000 minutes of continuous pain. 

The bile serves a disgusting market: it is used to produce shampoos, aphrodisiacs and 'miraculous' remedies. During the extraction of the liquid, a tube is inserted in the gall bladder; one end of the tube stays outside the belly of the bear, linked to a machine that extracts the bile.  The suffering of the animal exceeds the imagination: the bear wishes
death, mutilates himself and tries to commit suicide."

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25. Taimie Bryant, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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