Fwd: Fw: Bears in China

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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 this email 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

>

> NUMBER - NAME - CITY - COUNTRY

> 1. Anna Rigano - London - UK

> 2. Neil del Strother - London - UK

> 3 Steve Nobel - London - UK

> 4. Rose Buxton - London - UK

> 5. Nick Wood - Pembrokeshire West Wales.

> 6. Ross Heaven - Northampton - UK

> 7. Cheyenne Maloney - Bailey, CO - USA

> 8. Miguel Matos - Coimbra - Portugal

> 9. Ailie Freeland - Sydney - Australia

> 10. Marina Potvin- Quibec- Canada

> 11. Heidi Lavoie _ Toronto-Canada

> 12. Marc Nelson-Boulder-CO-USA

> 13. Darlene Turner-Vancouver-Canada

> 14. Greg Bendz-Vancouver-Canada

> 15. Michael Irving - Isle of Man - GB

> 16. Robert Breault - California - USA

> 17. David Pinkney - Oregon

> 18. Carol Pinkney - Oregon

> 19. Ben Bentzien - Oregon

> 20. Hettienne Grobler - Cape Town, RSA

> 21. Natasha Diedricks, Cape Town, RSA

> 22. Anna-Marie West - Cape Town, RSA

> 23. Gayo L Primic - Cape Town, RSA

> 24. Rosa Pheiffer - Cape Town, RSA

> 25 Verity Gorman - Benoni RSA

> 26 Christina van Niekerk - Kempton Park RSA

> 27 Judith Coertze - Kempton Park, RSA

> 28 Riaan Coertze - Kempton Park, RSA

> 29 Riaan Odendaal - Kempton Park , RSA

> 30 Tasha van Heerden - Kempton Park, RSA

> 31 Danielle Mostyn - Kempton Park, RSA

> 32 Samantha Langley - Durban, RSA

> 33 Beverley Hitchcox - Durban, RSA

> 34 Anne Campbell-Barnard - Durban, RSA

> 35 Carryn Grendon - Durban, RSA

> 36 Brenda Crook - Durban, RSA

> 37 Shelley Rebeck - Durban, RSA

> 38 Kerry Chisholm Batten - London, UK

> 39 Girvan Roberts

> 40 Tina Prior

> 41 Jayne Gillies - Sydney, Australia

> 42 Marie Schlederer - Sydney, Australia

> 43 Jayne Milner - Sydney, Australia

> 44 John Hanlon - Sydney, Australia

> 45 Nicola Cuthbertson - Sydney, Australia

> 46.Mary Cuthbertson - Tasmania, Australia

> 47. Carolyn Knight - Tasmania, Australia

> 48. Sam Brown - Tasmania, Australia

> 49. Diane Kristensen - Antwerp, Belgium

> 50. Nicola Green - Brisbane, Australia

> 51. Nicole Stacewicz - Brisbane, Australia

> 52. Annette Truman - Sydney, Australia

> 53. Carrie-Lee Jacque - Sydney, Australia

> 54. Vicki Micallef - Sydney, Australia

> 55. Joanna Ma - Sydney Australia

> 56. Divina Yam - Hong Kong, PRC

> 57. Clarence Low - Hong Kong, PRC

> 58. Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen, Hong Kong, PRC

> 59. Tay Teik Guan, Hong Kong, PRC

> 60. Cynthia Lai, Hong Kong, PRC

> 61. Tan Bee Hooi, Singapore

> 62. Shirley Lam, Singapore

> 63. Shanmugam, Singapore

> 64. Ann B K, Singapore

> 65. S.N.Rajan, Singapore

>

 

 

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