I hope to GOD I am not just dreaming..........
http://www.care2.com/causes/success-global-vote-shuts-down-bear-bile-...
The thousands of black bears held captive in Asia’s bile-farming industry will finally be released after the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) moved to end bear bile farming at its World Congress.
More than 67,000 Care2 members were part of a worldwide protest that succeeded in ending cruel bear bile farming practices.
Endangered black bears are hunted and harvested for their gall bladders in Asian countries where bear bile is considered a delicacy among traditional medicine. The bears are taken from the wild and confined to extremely small “crush cages,” where a catheter is painfully inserted into their stomach to milk them for their bile twice a day. Bears often bang their heads against their cages in frustration, or even starve themselves to death to escape the torturtuous farms.
On Friday, September 14th, these heinous crimes against bears became globally recognized as intolerable — and a formal movement to end the bear bile trade is underway. Bear bile farms will be shut down, industry growth will be capped, and supporters of the bile trade must defend their stance with scientific evidence proving that the process does not diminish endangered bear populations.
Bears will no longer be smuggled and trapped in cages where they cannot move, their gall bladders farmed for a substance that holds no medicinal value, but is still hunted to the point of mass-scale animal cruelty.
Thank you Care2 members for supporting this successful movement by signing Care2′s petition opposing the bear bile industry!
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/success-global-vote-shuts-down-bear-bile-...
