Bears Rescued from Torturous Bile Farm

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An animal rights group rescues twenty-eight bears in China.
An NGO dedicated to ending animal cruelty in Asia have just released footage of 28 moon bears that were being rescued from a life of torture on bile farms in China.
STORY:
The animal rights group, Animals Asia Foundation (AAF), say the bears were rescued from a farm in Ziyang, in Sichuan Province. Then they were brought to a rescue center in Chengdu in cramped cages and in shocking condition. Five were already dead.
The rights group's founder says the surviving bears were emaciated and wounded in various ways and appeared terrified. Some of the bears were blind... some had shattered teeth and were severely wounded.
[Dr. Heather Bacon, AAF Senior Veterinary Nurse]:
"We're a little bit worried about the bear here just in front of us. She's basically been lying down in the same position even whilst we've been moving around and off-loading other bears in front of her. She's making a very long groaning noise and she just seems very disinterested in anything that's going on."
Bear bile is used in traditional Chinese medicine and the black market trade is thriving. It is believed that more than 7,000 bears are imprisoned in the farms across China. The bears are milked daily and kept in tiny metal cages for up to 22 years, before usually dying slowly as a result of chronic infection.
In July 2000, AAF signed an agreement with Sichuan authorities to rescue 500 bears in the region and work towards eliminating bear farming in China.
Today, Chinese doctors agree that bear bile can be easily replaced with herbal and synthetic alternatives which are both cheap and effective.

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[PlalalaP]

Hey folks who are dissing the Chinese-it's not just limited to one race or one nation you people. I mean, think about the fashion designers who kill seals,rabbits, and such for their FUR and SKIN?

milking the bears is truly horrible and the chinese people who are doing it are horrible. but don't hate on the entire chinese race for the actions of a bunch of nutjobs.

[666barbie]

i havce never ever heard of this its really fucking disturbing

[hk96006345]

Think before open your mouth!

What about animals used in medical experiments in the west? Its hundred times more cruel than bear farm.

Though I against all kinds of animal abuse.

[salutvsem1]

exist 75 herbal alternatives to bear bile!!!

torturing helpless animals??? stuiped busters

[salutvsem1]

This is terrable! its not human its fuckin busters!!!! They must die

[KnockxYouxDown666]

@farawayreach You racist motherfucker! Exactly what one would expect from you filthy Americans. You fuckfaces are the reason why SOPA and PIPA exist! Jump into a fucking black hole so that your existence will mean something.

[RuinOrPeace]

Also: Do a google search for 'bile bear suicide'. You will find the story of a mother in a farm who strangled her own cub and then killed herself out of desperation. Also some farms make the bears wear an 'iron vest' which prevents the bears from banging their stomachs against the bottom of the cages in order to commit suicide. They were actually killing themselves in great enough numbers that they had to develop a vest to prevent them...

Sorry for the double post but this just ENRAGES me!!

[RuinOrPeace]

This is insanely cruel, and it makes me truly ashamed of my own species. Not only is there a synthetic equivalent available that is made from the bile of livestock, but there are plenty of herbal remedies as well as.... oh, I don't know - a HEALTHY diet and lifestyle which prevents most disease - all of which make bear bile ABSOLUTELY unneccessary.



[zonip67]

@farawayreach Why U Racist, Bro?

[Satituite]

Fucking awful, imagine sitting in a cage were you can't even turn around for 22 years and having nothing to do at all and having some food served on a plate infront of the cage just to keep you alive.. fucking disguisting..

I hate china, not all the people but ALOT of them!

[vivspring]

@ursibaby100 super rich westerners wear animal skin as fashion and where did they get that from? aint it from cruelly skinning the animals as well? we are all guilty of it. don't act innocent. when this problem happens, please think about the root cause and how to solve it. wiping these people will not solve the problem as there will be more of them in the future.

[ursibaby100]

WHAT IS WRONG WITH CHINA Why are they abusing, skinning animals alive ????May God strike them down