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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.
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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.
Bears Rescued from Torturous Bile Farm
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1 14blackwolf14
That made me even sadder. I just watched another sad video! We need more people to help animals, like these bears, to stop this kind of cruelty!!
2 SaveCetaceansNOW
Like topjimmy said “They have no human rights why would they have any animal.Only animal they care for is the few remaining Panda.And only reason Panda is the world would evoke a shitstorm they could only imagine the consequence of. But to treasure their 1 kind of Bear and do that to their other,sickens me!
3 SaveCetaceansNOW
Ya write to them so they got more paper to wipe their asses with.More like get a good film crew out there during the Olympics.While they busy trying to impress the world.The film crew could tell the real story on how they treat their fellow creatures.Just to think how they would shit themselves lol
4 journeyman47
Thanks for posting this video on this most terrible problem. Bear bile farming has got to be the worst form of animal exploitation and abuse on the planet…. but please, everyone, instead of posting hateful comments, help spread the word on the plight of the moon bears and do all you can to stop it, starting wtih writing to the Chinese government. Thanks.
5 FiorDiCiliegio86
I’m with you. They are stupid, w the bears!
6 AnimalsAnimated
God bless those rescuers. You can hardly imagine the relief and happiness of the bears.
7 stopallanimalabuse
LEFT IN CAGES FOR 22 YEARS these chinese that consume bear bile are so fricken stupid ignorant freaks. Have you seen how they treat dogs and cats before they eat them. THEY ARE GOING TO HELL. The chinese citizens really need to buck up help these animals, stop hiding and ignoring what your sick laws are, or is it that hard? I don’t know, I’m not in China.
8 BDFPA
Why when offloading the bears would you have cameras, lighting and pictures being taken. Surely the animal has recieved enough stress, discomfort and torture from it’s previous life, with this situation mounted on top. It would simply worsen the journey.
9 penny0102
What the hell!
What happend to china Actually?
The previous one i saw TIGER, Rakon now its Bear!
What happend to the chinese there?
in what era are they living in?
THEY ARE JUST SO STUPID!
they really act like ,,,,
CAVES MAN!
10 topjimmy72
leave it to the communist chinese party to teach its citizens how to hate all forms of life. They have no human rights, why would they have animal rights??