Vile farming for bear bile
All across Asia, bear bile is in demand by traditional Chinese medicine shops. In countries that farm the bile, mainly China, Vietnam, Korea and Lao, bears are kept inhumanely, in cages that match their size and so offers no room for movement. And twice a day, their bile is extracted and exported to shops throughout Asia. The bile is traditional medicine for a range of illnesses. There are an estimated 10,000 caged bears in China, 4,000 in Vietnam, 1,400 in Korea and 100 in Lao. In the wild, the Asiatic and Malayan Sun bears live between 25 to 30 years. In bile farms many animals don't make it past their 10th year. Many die earlier. All are traumatised and suffer illnesses. Animal Concerns Research and Education Society, better known by its acronym, ACRES based in Singapore is one NGO committed to ending bear bile farming in Asia. Louis Ng, executive director of ACRES says that the problem needs to be tackled on two fronts -- the users of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) and the farms themselves. He says that efforts to educate the TCM merchants and the general population have been effective in Singapore, reducing the number of shops selling the bile from 4 out of 5 to 1 out of 5 shops. Tackling the farms is being done in collaboration with other efforts and through efforts in getting each government to cooperate. ACRES themselves are focusing on Lao and have secured that government's cooperation to set up a centre to rehabilitate and care for bears that have rescued from bile farms. Ng says there are really no reasons to consume bear bile for the ailments that it is supposed to alleviate. "There are 50 herbs that have the same properties as bear bile," he says. http://www.acres.org.sg/ http://www.acres.org.sg/campaigns/current/keepingendangeredoutoftcm.html
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Animal lovers are idiots with a misguided sense of morality. There are people dying in different parts of the world you know!!
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I cant watch this its too sad PPL ARE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nuke China! fuck em all...
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Do you realize all cultures hve had some form of folk remedies that involved similar practices. Europeans used to chop up Egyptian mummies for medicinal reasons.
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Honestly fuck all the asians they have all these pointless beliefs in mystical qualities of the products of endangered species. They cause a huge amount of poaching and killing! FUCK ASIANS
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There already is a synthetic product. That's mentioned on another clip about the same subject. Add to that synthetic replacements the herb replacements as well and you have nothing else but bears being tortured and murdered out of pure greed and evil. This one goes on my Facebook.
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Can't they produce a synthetic product using genetic engineering ???
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fucking discusting
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Planets with life are like a needle in a hay stack relative to the universe, so many obstacles for life, life's so precious... Earth, possibly the only planet where life thrives within an area of millions upon millions of miles, and the planet's potential is wasted on us... our arrogant, unworthy, disgusting race.
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SHAME ON ANYONE WHO DOES THIS! And shame on any government that allows it. Animal torture for profit, pure and simple.
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apa kena mengena berita ini dengan malaysia? Sengaja nak tunjuk buruk cina? Haha.
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the gall bladder! the human species also have that organ! those who does bear farming will get human bile farming for those crooks without painkiller till the end of time!
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