Write to your MEP to help end Bear Farming in China

October 29, 2005

Dear European Members of the AAPN List and Friends of Animals Asia,

On October 13th, 2005, Members of the European Parliament invited

Animals Asia Founder and CEO Jill Robinson to attend a press launch in

Brussels calling for an end to bear farming.

MEPs launched a Written Declaration calling upon the Chinese authorities

to end bear farming in China forever. For this declaration to become

European Union policy it needs to receive the support of over 367 MEPs

across Europe.

There are 780 MEPs across Europe, so we need to get the backing of over

half of them. Once we have this, the President of the European

Parliament will write to the Chinese Government calling for an end to

bear farming in China. We therefore desperately need you to help us

lobby your MEPs to ensure that they sign the declaration before the cut

off date of the 26th December 2005!

To easily find the name and address of your local MEPs please click on

the link:

OR click on http://www.writetothem.com/ Type in your post code and you

will be shown a list of MEPs for your area - you can then automatically

send them your message.

WHAT TO ASK: Simply ask your MEP to sign the declaration 0052/2005 on

'rising international concern over the farming of bear bile in China'

issued by MEPs - David Martin, Paulo Casaca, Peter Skinner, Terence Wynn

and Robert Evans on 26th September 2005. A sample letter follows below,

but you may of course feel free to write your own!

This is a golden opportunity to help the bears! Please write as soon as

possible and please forward this email onto as many people as possible -

together we can end bear farming in China forever! If you would like

more information on bear farming or the China Bear Rescue, please visit

the Animals Asia website www.animalsasia.org, and please don't hesitate

to contact me with any questions you might have.

Best wishes,

Dave Neale

UK Director

Animals Asia Foundation

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