FW: Help stop bile farms PLEASE

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Dear all,

 

We ask the Chinese government for compassion.

 

Today in China 10,000 (ten thousand) bears are kept prisoner for extracting

bile form their gall bladders. The bears are kept in a horizontal position,

in cages that look rather like coffins. They wear a metal collar and are

held down by pressure bars. A catheter is introduced into their body that

continuously absorbs the liquid from their gall bladders..

 

The bears cannot change their position and remain in this condition of

permanent pain between 15 and 20 years! We cannot accept this cruelty,

torture and barbarism to continue and be part of the life of these poor

bears for another minute. With their paw they take some food through a

little opening in the cage. To quench their thirst they have to stretch

their tongue to lick the bars of their prison. They suffer excruciating pain

as they have to stay for an average of 15 years in the same position that

deforms their bones.

 

We are talking about 15 years or 180 months, or 5,475 days, or 131,400 hours

or 78,844,000 minutes of continuous pain. The bile serves a disgusting

market: it is used to produce shampoos, aphrodisiacs and =

'miraculous' remedies. During the extraction of the liquid, a tube is

inserted in the gall bladder; one end of the tube stays outside the belly of

the bear, linked to a machine that extracts the bile. The suffering of the

animal exceeds the imagination: the bear wishes death, mutilates himself and

tries to commit suicide.

 

For further information visit

http://www.geocities.com/Baja/2324/index.html=20

 

To help, you just need to copy this email and sign the list below, which

calls for the immediate end of the horrific " Bile Farms " - then send this

message to as many people as possible. Thanks again.

 

Highlight the whole of this email then open a new mail and paste in to the

message to add your name and to forward on.

 

Once this list reaches 100, please send to ramona

 

NUMBER - NAME - CITY - COUNTRY

1. Anna Rigano - London - UK

2. Neil del Strother - London - UK

3 Steve Nobel - London - UK

4. Rose Buxton - London - UK

5. Nick Wood - Pembrokeshire West Wales UK

6. Ross Heaven - Northampton - UK

7. Cheyenne Maloney - Bailey, CO - USA

8. Miguel Matos - Coimbra - Portugal

9. Ailie Freeland - Sydney - Australia

10. Marina Potvin- Quebec- Canada

11. Heidi Lavoie _ Toronto-Canada

12. Marc Nelson-Boulder--USA

13. Darlene Turner-Vancouver-Canada

14. Greg Bendz-Vancouver-Canada

15. Michael Irving - Isle of Man - UK

16. Benjamin Harris - Farmington, New Mexico - USA

17. Jesse Gubb - Christchurch - Aotearoa NZ

18. Finn Ogle - Hokitika - New Zealand

19. Jasmine Cargill - Wellington - Aotearoa - NZ

20. Radha Forrest - Dunedin - Aoetearoa - NZ

21. Debra Murray- Melbourne-Australia

22. Brendan Shoebridge - Melbourne, Australia.

23. Sandra DeMinico - Melbourne, Australia

24. Sonia Green - Australia

25. Amy Osborne - Adelaide, Australia

26. Michelle Fotiou - Adelaide, Australia

27. Prudence Pascoe, Australia

28. Carol Hendry - Adelaide, Australia

29. Sascha Detmold - Adelaide, Australia

30. Maria Coomblas - Adelaide, Australia

31. Amber Bonney - Adelaide, Australia

32. Kylie McCall - Melbourne, Australia

33. Rena Tong - Perth, Australia>

34. Lee Spaul - Perth, Australia

35. Rebecca Franklin, London, England

36. Julia Power - Perth, Australia

37. Sarah Brown - Perth, Australia

38. Allan McGill - Zeehan, Australia

39.Jacquie Clarke - Harare Zimbabwe

40. Nicola Dudley - Marlborough, England

41. Kathleen Saunders - Marlborough, England

42. ?=FBule Ayta - Istanbul, Turkiye

43. Tinaz Titiz -Istanbul -Turkiye

44. Demir Fansa - Istanbul - Turkiye

45. Zehra Aktay - Istanbul - Turkiye

46. Asli Aktay - Istanbul - Turkiye

47. Metin Aktay - Istanbul - Turkiye

48. Hatice Soysev Kolat - Turkiye

49.Loni Farhi-USA

50.Gareth Owen - Bristol, UK

51.Helen Humphries - Bristol, UK

52.Kirsty Righton - Bristol, UK

53.Emily Funnell - Haslemere, UK

54. Debbie Davies - Plaistow, UK

55. Amanda Little - Rudgwick, UK

56. Jacquie Verbeek, Fernhurst, UK

57. Paul King, Thimphu, Bhutan

58. Gail Murray, Thimphu, Bhutan

59. Stephen Petersen, Thimphu, Bhutan

60. Judy Podziewski, Baltimore, USA

61. Jill Jansons, New York, USA

62. Margot M. Nielsen, Pretoria, South Africa

63. Lars Pedersen, Copenhagen, DK

64. Claus J=F8rgensen

65. Birgitte Krogh-Poulsen, Aalborg, Denmark

66. Gitte and Hector Robinson, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

66. Andrew Bourne, Brisbane, Australia

67. Phil Sydenham, Brisbane, Australia

68. Christine Johnes, Brisbane, Australia