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FARMING BEAR BILE & BEAR PAW SOUP: THE UNIMAGINABLE HORRORS THAT BEARS ARE FORCED TO ENDURE

11/17/2018

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 "China is the center of the industry and of demand for bear bile products. Bear farming remains legal in China, and at least 10,000 bears are kept in cages on nearly 70 farms." -- Washingtonpost, Jun 2018
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"The first known record of the use of bear bile for its medicinal properties comes from a Tang Dynasty document that dates to A.D. 659. But the idea of farming living bears to extract bile originated in North Korea in the early 1980s before rapidly spreading to China, Vietnam and Laos." -- Simon Denyer (Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea.)

PictureBear Paws - photo credit: http://factsanddetails.com
"If you don't know these egregious acts of inhumanity are being perpetrated against bears, how will things ever change? That's the reason I post this stuff. I know it's easier not knowing about this hell on earth suffering but these animals deserve their cries to be heard.  The stories of abuse that bears endure -- sometimes for their entire 25 year life -- are beyond comprehension. The abuse is so outrageously painful for these bears that it leaves me both enraged and numb all at the same time. " -- Betsy Seeton, 2011

PHUNG THUONG, Vietnam 2018 -- ­Inside a row of rusting cages, 15 adult moon bears are imprisoned in varying degrees of apathy and distress. Some lie on their backs in the tiny enclosures, unable even to stretch out; others loll their heads or chew listlessly at the bars of the cage in tortured, repetitive motions.

Every few days, the bears are sedated, a needle is inserted into their gall bladders and bile is extracted to be sold as a cure for ailments as diverse as hemorrhoids and hangovers. More than 20,000 bears are kept, most in appalling conditions, across eastern Asia to satisfy an age-old obsession with the medicinal and magical powers of products culled from exotic animals. 
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Yet there is a ray of hope for some of these bears, as public awareness of animal cruelty and welfare gradually rises across Asia. "
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MAY 2013 - CLICK TO READ
In 2011, when I first wrote this article, the estimated price of a bear gallbladder on the black market is $10,000 according to Andrew Revelos writing for Marine Corps Base Quantico - Quantico Sentry OnLine. Ounce for ounce, gallbladders have ranked as some of the highest commodities on the black market. In 2009 bear bile was  estimated at 2 pounds for $400,000. (Source)
"Last year (2017), Vietnam’s government promised to close down all of its bear farms by 2022, after a pledge by the country’s traditional Chinese medicine community to stop prescribing bear bile products by 2020.

That means bear farming is very clearly coming to an end in Vietnam, “once and for all,” said Jill Robinson, founder of Animals Asia. “I think they realized that both internally and internationally, bear bile farming was becoming a very unpalatable subject.”
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FROM FREETHEBEARS.ORG
STRAIGHT FROM FREETHEBEARS.ORG:
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Since 1995 Free the Bears Fund has provided support to a wide range of projects across the globe; from the rehabilitation of orphaned bear cubs in the Russian Far East to surveying wild Spectacled bears in Ecuador. As Free the Bears has grown we have focused more intensely on the Sun bears and Asiatic black bears of South-east Asia and the Sloth bears of India. 

By creating partnerships that are tailored to each individual country and situation we have been able to support a wide range of projects in our six priority countries; Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Despite these countries being geographically close to one another, the threats to bears vary widely and as such our responses encompass a wide range of strategies including environmental awareness, sustainable livelihoods, increased enforcement and research and protection of wild bear populations.

 Our support ranges from direct intervention on-the-ground to providing much-needed funds to local organisations carrying out bear conservation work in line with our goals. To find out more about the various projects that we support, please select from the menu to the left. VISIT FREETHEBEARS.ORG
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PictureRESCUED BEAR AT FREETHEBEARS.ORG

 From an interview with Mary Hutton by  Claudette Vaughan reported on the ABOLISTIONIST-ONLINE.COM:

 The Bear Paw Soup is considered a delicacy in Cambodia. Some bears are taken because the meat is tender. The cub again is taken from the wild, the mother most likely killed. The cubs are put in a cage. This is not a dish specific to Cambodian either. The Koreans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Taiwanese all go and order their bowls of Bear Paw Soup. The paw is cut off and the stump is sealed in hot coals and on oil to stop the bleeding. That paw is served as a delicacy. It’s called “Braised Bear Paw Soup” served with onions and garlic and it can fetch around US$200-$300 dollars per serve.This has been stopped to a huge extent by a big advertising awareness campaign that we worked with the group “Wild Aid” who are up there as well. 70% of this has now been stopped. There was one restaurant that didn’t comply. He was closed down by the Mayor and threatened with if he serves anything like this again, including any exotic pieces such as tigers, he would not be allowed to reopen. Due to this initiate it’s not very often now that you see a bowl of bear paw soup around on a menu.

If that one bear still survives having it’s paw cut off slowly each paw is taken by other people. Not so much now, because the trade is dying out, but that poor bear will go on until all four paws have gone. The bear then immersed in a boiling hot vat of water because people like to see the bear and ensure the meat is fresh before eating him.

We have made such a fuss about the Cambodian Paw Soup issue however we also know that bears are farmed in Vietnam and are trapped in other sorts of ways. I can tell you it is very distressing. 

The paws of a bear are cut off while the bear is alive and used to make bear paw soup.... 
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FROM http://www.greenmuze.com/animals/wild/768-bear-bile-farming.html
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Bear paws - What are humans thinking???

STRAIGHT FROM http://www.greenmuze.com/animals/wild/768-bear-bile-farming.html

 Posing as buyers and suppliers in the illegal wildlife trade, eco warriors have taken hidden cameras where some of the most heinous crimes against nature are taking place: on bear bile farms in China.

Other Earth saviors have packed unhidden cameras when they've gone on rescue missions to record the conditions of the bears they save and the ones they have to tragically leave behind. 

I urge each of you reading this to help in the campaign to end this abuse by passing along this link and other information from organizations dedicated to saving bears. Also sign petitions, write letters, and reach out in your own creative way. The thought of cutting off the paw of a bear for 'bear paw soup' leaves me so disillusioned by the humans on both ends of the supply/demand chain. Who would cage these beautiful animals for a lifetime to take bile from them while the animals suffer unimaginably? Do your part to shine a light on these egregious acts of inhumanity. 
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Bear Bile - Click to go to Animalsasia.org -- Great organization helping bears.

FROM: World Society for the Protection of Animals 

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The reality of bear farming is that an estimated 14,000  bears (this was posted in 2011 and in 2018, the Washington Post states the number has risen to 20,000) are being kept in tiny cages across Asia, starved and dehydrated, and milked for their bile. The bile removed from farmed bears is thick and infected, containing blood, pus, urine and faeces and is collected in unsterilised basins.

Many of these endangered species are captured illegally from the wild.  Some are drugged, restrained and have their abdomens jabbed with unsterilised four inch needles until their gall bladders are punctured to release the bile. Others are milked through open infected abdominal wounds, or catheters made from latex or rusty metal.

They are pumped full of antibiotics and other drugs just to keep them alive. Most of them develop massive infections, multiple diseases and malignant tumours that ultimately kill them. They are often kept in tiny cages for up to 30 years – the space is so small that they can’t even turn around."
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vanessa
4/30/2011 01:00:23

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Danielle Prault
4/1/2014 02:15:39

I came across this horrid practice in a fiction novel. I didn't think it was true, so I looked it up. This makes me literally sick to my stomach. I participate in Peta protests, is there anything I can do to help from the US?

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Kylie
8/9/2014 07:48:24

Please let me know if there's anything I can do??? I didn't know this disgusting industry was real either!!!! I'm horrified! That's an understatement!!!!!! So angry!

hal Morris
6/7/2011 15:11:27

This is so sad to read about this happening with our bears. I killed a bear years ago as a hunter but wouldn't do it again.You are doing a lot of good with this website. Many thanks !

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Nicole
8/20/2011 00:00:40

my brother took a trip to northern wisconsin and saw a dead bead on the side of the road missing it paws. I was trying to figure out why someone would cut off a bear's paws... And I came across your website... Sad.

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Jenny Wren link
3/27/2015 17:12:17

That is so sad! How horrible for your brother! I would do anything to stop this from happening!

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marcia bush
9/19/2012 10:09:34

Shame on those monsters who have no heart.

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Carolina Izabella Suba da Silva
2/8/2013 03:47:29

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Gisele Silva
2/8/2013 10:04:51

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Aleš Grdina
2/20/2013 21:32:20

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Aleš Grdina
2/20/2013 21:32:51

Shame for humankind!

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michael nürnberg
2/23/2013 00:46:07

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Betsy
2/23/2013 00:51:28

I don't know why comments aren't showing up. The latest from Michael nurnberg is blank ... I would like to respond, but I don't know what you wrote, Michael ...

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Rosina Glose
2/23/2013 02:46:44

senza parole! No comment! :-((((((((((((((((((((((((((

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margit
2/23/2013 18:01:38

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san
2/23/2013 20:08:11

DISGUSTING CRUELTY OF BEARS...........NEEDS TO STOP NOW...DO SOMETHING

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Dorota
3/17/2013 21:27:04

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Eleanor Riley
4/1/2013 07:25:13

I am absalutley disgusted with the Chinese and other Asian countries that partake in this abhorent practice,China you should be ashamed of yourself,I am. As human beigns you disgust me,may you all rot in hell.

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Danielle Prault
4/1/2014 02:17:11

Amen.

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Aleksandra Zecevic
5/13/2013 01:52:56

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laura
7/13/2013 04:20:31

this breaks my heart completely! i saw this in a magazine last week and had to look it up, i thank you for posting it and keeping people aware. it truly makes me angry and makes me question what kind of world we live in!

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Betsy
3/12/2014 06:26:51

I agree with you! It is so heartbreaking. There's abuse to so many animals around the world, and what is happening to bears is at the top of the list as one of the most inhumane.

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Dorota Gontarz
3/12/2014 05:58:05

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Danielle Prault
4/1/2014 02:25:09

The amount of vulgar,disgusting things ignorant humans do to animals for no justifiable reason is never ending. I am not an animal activist, nor a vegetarian, but when it comes to inflicting pain, torturing and abusing animals for stupid, moronic or just completely pointless reasons, I would like to see the same process taken out on the human as punishment. We need animals for survival, but the methods we have adapted to, not just in China or other foreign countries but here in the US as well, are disgusting and irreprehensible. It only proves what a bored and pathetic race we've become.

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Jenny Wren link
3/27/2015 17:09:59

I totally agree! I mean, I don't know how to speak chinse, let alone go over there and stop it from happening. I just wish it was in my country instead, so I could do more about it and be able to stop it, you know? Of course I wish it didn't happen at all, but at lest I could do something about it!!!!!! So frustrating that I can't really help those poor bears!

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arun link
8/2/2014 17:48:40

these chinese and korean people are sick assholes how can they do something like this . animal protection guys please do something.

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May link
9/4/2014 17:07:06

How could people do such things to these poor innocent animals. This is unacceptable disgusting behaviour. Animals have feelings and feel pain to like any other human. Imagine you were the bear and a filthy human being did that to you. How would you feel? I hope all the Asian countries see this message. You people sicken me for what you have done. I hope y'all rot in hell 2.

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Jenny Wren link
3/27/2015 17:02:33

It is just disgusting. It's feral and I'm cold with rage that these people could do that to any beautiful and helpless bear that can't defend itself. I'm only fourteen, but one day when I'm older, I am going to stop this, somehow. Animal Protection people, please do everything you can... It makes me physically ill.

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anon
8/7/2015 08:42:41

I actually tried a steamed bear paw dish in china. It wasn't too bad. I still have its claws.

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Betsy Seeton
8/7/2015 09:04:44

To anon - (From Delaware)
Why won't you use your real name? Why leave such an insensitive comment on an article about how atrocious this? If you want to make a statement, and voice your opinion, do it with truth, class and be straight forward. Don't hide behind anon and be passive aggressive. If you believe bears should be kept in cages and slowing have their body parts cut off to fed you, then say that. And say with your name.

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Betsy
8/7/2015 09:05:43

Meant to say to feed you not "fed"

James link
10/19/2015 02:35:03

Wake up people this is the world live in. You want to have change be the change, go over there and demand the law enforcement change things. Remember the hunting here funds preserves and law enforcement, game management, game wardens, federal protection for species needing it. If you want to help our native game AND non-game animals buy hunting tags. Unfortunately it does nothing to help out of country game, it will help stop the importation into the US.

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Erin Robinson
11/16/2018 13:32:35

This is vile. Please-think of what the animal is going through so you can have foot soup.

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Sandro rosalia
11/16/2018 18:44:07

Merde

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Shariat
11/17/2018 03:29:34

.

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Sandro rosalia
11/18/2018 09:33:11

👊🏼

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Annette
11/18/2018 19:18:39

BAN bear paw soup!! Immediately. This barbaric display of lower level human thinking is disgusting

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