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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Bears--A Tragic Way of Life


> > Subject: Bears
> >
> > Today in China 10,000 (ten thousand) bears are kept prisoner for
> > extracting bile
> > from 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? (Click the English
> > version)
> >
> > To help, you just need to copy this e-mail 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. Once this list reaches
100,
> > please
> > send to ramona@unikey.com.br
> >
> > > >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.
> > > >6. Ross Heaven - Northampton - UK
> > > >7. Cheyenne Maloney - Bailey, CO - USA
> > > >8. Miguel Matos - Coimbra - Portugal
> > > >9. Ailie Freeland - Sydney - Australia
> > > >10. Marina Potvin- Qu?bec- Canada
> > > >11. Heidi Lavoie _ Toronto-Canada
> > > >12. Marc Nelson-Boulder-CO-USA
> > > >13. Darlene Turner-Vancouver-Canada
> > > >14. Greg Bendz-Vancouver-Canada
> > > >15. Michael Irving - Isle of Man - GB
> > > >16. Robert Breault - California - USA
> > > >17. David Pinkney - Oregon
> > > >18. Carol Pinkney - Oregon
> > > >19. Ben Bentzien - Oregon
> > > >20. Hettienne Grobler - Cape Town, RSA
> > > >21. Natasha Diedricks, Cape Town, RSA
> > > >22. Anna-Marie West - Cape Town, RSA
> > > >23. Gayo L Primic - Cape Town, RSA
> > > >24. Rosa Pheiffer - Cape Town, RSA
> > > >25 Verity Gorman - Benoni RSA
> > > >26 Christina van Niekerk - Kempton Park RSA
> > > >27 Judith Coertze - Kempton Park, RSA
> > > >28 Riaan Coertze - Kempton Park, RSA
> > > >29 Riaan Odendaal - Kempton Park , RSA
> > > >30 Tasha van Heerden - Kempton Park, RSA
> > > >31 Danielle Mostyn - Kempton Park, RSA
> > > >32 Samantha Langley - Durban, RSA
> > > >33 Beverley Hitchcox - Durban, RSA
> > > >34 Anne Campbell-Barnard - Durban, RSA
> > > >35 Carryn Grendon - Durban, RSA
> > > >36 Brenda Crook - Durban, RSA
> > > >37 Shelley Rebeck - Durban, RSA
> > > >38 Kerry Chisholm Batten - London, UK
> > > >39 Girvan Roberts
> > > >40 Tina Prior
> > > >41 Jayne Gillies - Sydney, Australia
> > > >42 Marie Schlederer - Sydney, Australia
> > > >43 Jayne Milner - Sydney, Australia
> > > >44 John Hanlon - Sydney, Australia
> > > >50 Georgie Macken - Sydney, Australia
> > > >51 Jacqui Bundy - Sydney, Australia
> > > >52. Skye Vermeesch - Sydney, Australia
> > > >53. Paul Vermeesch - Sydney, Australia
> > > >54. Amanda Molyneux - Sydney, Australia
> > > >55. John Molyneux - Sydney, Australia
> > > >56. Eve Molyneux - Sydney, Australia
> > > >57. John E. Molyneux - Sydney, Australia
> > > >58. Justine Taylor - Sydney, Australia
> > > >59. Clinton Taylor - Sydney, Australia
> > > >60. Nicola Smith - Sydney, Australia
> > > >61. Georgie McGarr - Sydney, Australia
> > > >62. Sarah Doctor - Sydney , Australia
> > > >63. Sarah Webb - Sydney, Australia
> > > >64. Michael Stevenson - Sydney, Australia
> > > >65. Jure Leko - Sydney, Australia
> > > >66. Anna Hulajko - Sydney, Australia
> > > >67. Alison Sykes - Sydney, Australia
> > > >68. Mark Anderson - Sydney, Australia
> > > >69. Christine Churchill - Sydney, Australia
> > > >70. Cameron McLean - Melbourne, Australia
> > > >71. David Le Page - Melbourne, Australia
> > > >72. Stuart Mossman - Adelaide, Australia
> > > >73. Ashley Mossman - Adelaide, Australia
> > > >74. Dallas Statton - Adelaide, Australia
> > > >75. Jayne Whibley - Adelaide, Australia
> > > >76. Toni Oatley - Adelaide, Australia
> > > >77. Tanya Blaess - Adelaide, Australia
> > > >78. Amy Manuel, Adelaide, Australia
> > > >79. Liz Moncrieff, Adelaide, Australia
> > > >80  Trevor Jones, Adelaide Australia
> > > >81  Gavin Thredgold, Adelaide Australia
> > > >82  Christy McDonnell, Adelaide Australia
> > > >83 Jaimie-Lee Finney, Adelaide Australia
> > > >84 Julie-Ann Finney, Adelaide Australia
> > > >85 Grant Headland, Adelaide Australia
> > > >86 Margaret Souter, Australia
> > > >87 Judy Mohor, Adelaide, Australia
> > > >88 Trudi westley, Adelaide, Australia
> > > >89 Kath Hocking, Victoria, Australia
> > > >90 Julia Helmstedt, Johannesburg, South Africa
> > > >91 Nicole Fouche, Raleigh, NC, US
> > > >92 Crystal Mitchell Cancun, Mexico
> > > >93 Abby Harper-Richmond, VA-U.S.A.
> >      94 Cathie Tatum-Jacksonville, FL-U.S.A.
> >      95 Susan Stanton, Atlantic Beach, FL USA
> >     96 Faith Martin, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL USA
> >     97 francesca tabor-miolla, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL USA
98 Barbara Norris, St. Augustine, FL, USA
99Diane  Schmolka, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

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