Mistreatment Of Bear in Vietnam part (1/2)
"Around 30 bears die each year in Hanoi. To replace the dead animals, poachers scour the country's few remaining forests to trap the animals and sell to 'bear raisers'." - Hoang Ngoc Can (Director, Law Dept. Hanoi Forestry Service) An estimated 4000 bears are kept illegally in Vietnam's flourishing bear farms where they are "milked" for their bile, which is used in traditional medicines and tonics. The active ingredient in bear bile - ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is believed to calm fever and inflammation, improve eyesight, keep the liver healthy and break down gallstones. Despite the current availability of synthetic alternatives, over the last three decades the demand for bear bile has continued to increase. The result has been the introduction of intensive farming of wild bears to supply growing consumer demand. Two species of bear are found in Vietnam's bile farms. The majority of the bears are Asiatic Black Bears; Sun Bears are also farmed for their bile in Vietnam. Most of the farmed bears are believed to have been poached from Vietnam's forests, or smuggled over the border from Laos. Once a bear is fully grown (at around three years old) the painful bile extraction begins. These adult bears, many of which have lost paws following capture in crude snares, are kept in tiny cages and are forced to undergo painful and dangerous extraction of their bile using a steel catheter that is embedded into its stomach. The cages are designed to be so small that the bears cannot move or turn - this makes the process of milking the bile much easier. Many of the bears have sores, wounds or scars on their bodies from rubbing against the cages. A bear will stop producing bile between the ages of five to ten years old. They will then be left to die or they are slaughtered for their paws or gall bladders. In Asia, bear paws are still seen as a delicacy and can be found on restaurant menus for a few hundred dollars. Cubs too young to produce adequate quantities of bile may also be slaughtered for their whole gall bladders and paws. The extracted bear bile - EJF In the last few years bear bile has become commonplace on menus. Restaurants and cafes in major towns and cities serve bear bile wine, paws and meat. Newspapers openly advertise bear bile and customers are invited to attend bile extractions to verify the authenticity of the product. While demand for "authentic" bear bile remains high, both synthetic and herbal alternative products which contain the active constituent found in bear bile (UDCA) are cheap and readily available.
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PLEASE, PLEASE , HACER ENTENDER A LAS AUTORIDADES VIETNAMISTAS QUE LA MEDICINA DEL OSOS LUNA NO EXISTE
EVITAR COMPRAR , ESTOS OSOS SUFREN SON SERES VIVOS QUE SUFREN PIEDAD Y COMPASION PARA ESTOS ANIMALES
NOT CURE SICKS HUMANAS
EVITAR COMPRAR IN CHINA, VIETMAN Y COREA MEDICINA TRADICIONAL ASIATICO
ESTAS PERSONAS ESTAN CONFUNDIDOS PIEDAD Y COMPASION PARA ESTOS ANIMALES
NO MERECEN VIVIR ESTO , SI LOS CHINOS SINTIERIERAN LO QUE SIENTEN ESTOS INDEFENSOS ANIMALES -
fucking asians ,i want to beat the next slanty eyed cunt i see,they need to be wiped out.There disgusting culture repulses me.They better stop coming to australia because there ignorance is going to get the best of u dim sims.Australians will not keep u coming here you whores n drug dealers.die
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Add to that the treatment of dolphins and whales in Japan. Inexplicable. I live in L.A., and love sushi, but I refuse to support any and all Japanese restaurants and businesses because of Japanese attitudes toward these magnificent, highly intelligent creatures. I'm adding Vietnam to my list.
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These people are so fucked up...
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I just want to smash all there stupid chinky faces in
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There will be a special place in HELL for these people.
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So sad and heartbreaking :'-(
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sick fucks.
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plss let me kill them !!
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wow whatever sympathy i had for vietnamese just deteriorated after seeing this.
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Honestly, the Asian countries sure are coming across as inhumane monsters what with the bear bile farms, eating of beautiful dogs and cats, and causing elephants to be killed for their ivory and rhinos for their horns. what you Asian idiots are forgetting, is what are you going to do when all the animals are dead? I'm glad there are at least some Asian people trying to protect the animals but more need to step forward and say no to killing these animals.
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ive never heard a bear squeal before. interesting, but sad..
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I have no words, its all mind and no heart.Its empty.My heart goes out for all animals who meet these humans with empty hearts.Love to all animals who have to suffer,in order to fill peoples empty life.They lack knowledge ,big time .Maybe if they try it for them self to feel how it feels to suffer like that, they will know what they are doing. Stupid is what stupid does.
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We humans are the superior race. This proves it. Human Supremacy!
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the scream of the bear just got me to tears...
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@rozl66 Hmmm I'll be honest you got me there but to say that all of them are a lie may be a little false. I'm sure there have been battles that the NWO are not responsible for. I'm sure there have been wars going on before they were ever founded but back to the main subject. It's not fair for you to judge my people as entirely back consider hunting bears is illegal and only poachers do that. Sure we do certain things but not without making sure the species is not in danger.
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@CrimesonWitcher All WAR is a lie! Not to go too far off subject, just research the NWO.
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@BETH2DEC Racist fucker.
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@rozl66 If you read your fucking history book the Vietnam war was a lie in the first place so you wouldn't have any right to use nukes you fucking moron.
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@0176pao WTF we do have respect for living things but they serve a purpose. We don't kill them just for the fun if it you hateful asshole. Stop assuming shit you don't know about.
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