bears tortured in china

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Please read this and, if you feel strongly about it,

do the following...

 

We ask the Chinese government for compassion.

 

Today in China 10,000 (ten thousand) 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 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, afrodisiacs 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- Québec- Canada

11. Heidi Lavoie _ Toronto-Canada

12. Marc Nelson-Boulder-CO-USA

13. Darlene Turner-Vancouver-Canada

14. Greg Bendz-Vancouver-Canada

15. Deborah Wnuk -Long Island-New York

16. Tracy Twyman- Union City - NJ, USA

17. Brian Albert - Tigard, OR, USA

18. Daniel Levy - New York City, NY

19. Robin Brockopp - Wheat Ridge, Colorado - USA