Extra-Blatt
Petition: Chinesische Bären
Eine Kettenbrief-Petition für den Tierschutz
Wieder mal ein Kandidat in der Kategorie "sinnlose Petitionen". Es geht um das Schicksal von Bären in China, die unter grausamen Bedingungen gehalten werden, um ihr Gallensekret zu gewinnen, das für kosmetische und pseudo-medizinische Zwecke eingesetzt wird. Die Fakten sind soweit zutreffend.
Originaltext (engl.):
We ask the Chinese government for compassion.
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.
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.
Once this list reaches 100, please send to ramona@unikey.com.br
For further information visit: http://www.geocities.com/Baja/2324/index.html
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