AR-News: China Bear Bile Farming---Sample Letter

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Subj:[AGA] Bear Bile Farming-Letter 
Date:5/25/2004 11:58:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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From: alternatespirit 


Stop Bear Farming In China

BACKGROUND:

As part of an ongoing investigation into China's bear bile industry--
in which bears are confined in cramped cages and milked daily for 
their bile--the UK-based World Society for the Protection of Animals 
(WSPA) found bears suffering in deplorable conditions at all 10 farms 
visited. "And at one farm in Yingina," reads the report, "bears that 
were obviously sick lay recumbent without movement. A constant stream 
of bile seeped from the stomachs of other bears, where an opening had 
been made into their gall bladders." 

PREWRITTEN LETTER ON WEB (to President Hu Jintao of the People's 
Republic of China):

http://www.wspa-americas.org/bear_bile_postcard.cfm
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