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We ask the Chinese government for compassion. Today in China
10,000 (ten thousand) bears are kept prisoner for extracting bile from
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 accept 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.
For further information visit: http://www.geocities.com/Baja/2324/index.html (Click the English version)
To help, you just need to copy (and paste) this e-mail and sign the
list below, which calls for the immediate end of the horrific "Bile
Farms" - then send this message to as many people as possible. Thanks
again.
Once this list reaches 100, please send to ramona@unikey.com.br
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