Mother bear kills cub and then itself

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http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20110805-292947.html
The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself.

The bears were kept in a farm located in a remote area in the North-West of China. The bears on the farm had their gall bladders milked daily for 'bear bile,' which is used as a remedy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

It was reported that the bears are kept in tiny cages known as 'crush cages', as the bears have no room to manoeuvre and are literally crushed.

The bile is harvested by making a permanent hole or fistula in the bears' abdomen and gall bladder.

As the hole is never closed, the animals are suspect to various infections and diseases including tumours, cancers and death from peritonitis.

The bears are fitted with an iron vest, as they often try to kill themselves by hitting their stomach as they are unable to bear the pain.

A person who was on the farm in place of a friend witnessed the procedures and told Reminbao.com that they were inhumane.

The witness also claimed that a mother bear broke out its cage when it heard its cub howl in fear before a worker punctured its stomach to milk the bile.

The workers ran away in fear when they saw the mother bear rushing to its cub's side.

Unable to free the cub from its restraints, the mother hugged the cub and eventually strangled it.

It then dropped the cub and ran head-first into a wall, killing itself.

Many TCM practitioners have denounced the use of bear bile in their treatment as there are cheaper herbs and synthetics that can be used in its place.

Bear bile is traditionally used to remove 'heat' from the body as well as treat high fever, liver ailments and sore eyes.
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Yissus! I wish I could take those okes and ram their heads against the bladdy wall! :mad:

What is it with these asians and all their damn "home remedies and cures" that result in so much animal suffering and death?
Can't these people move into the twenty first century? :mad:
 
Garyvdh said:
Yissus! I wish I could take those okes and ram their heads against the bladdy wall! :mad:

What is it with these asians and all their damn "home remedies and cures" that result in so much animal suffering and death?
Can't these people move into the twenty first century? :mad:
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We do the same to rats, monkeys, sharks, chickens, horses, cows, dolphins, elephants, and various other animals for our own remedies/tests etc.

This is truly sad though R.I.P to the Mother bear and the child bear. If there is a next life hopefully they get their revenge.
 
Monsters...

Ps. The thought of consuming bile, let alone bear bile makes me mock charge.
 
i HATE reading things like this. HATE IT HATE HATE IT. Makes me sick to the stomach. and we are at the top of the food chain / most intelligent....

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That actually physically made me sick. Effing Chinese!
 
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I only read half of the article. I just can not bare things like this anymore. We as a species do not deserve to be on the beautiful planet I think. The things we do to animals is beyong words.
 
Goeie jasaaas. This just utterly murdered my Phuza Thursday mood... sometimes being a "proud" human is like being proud you just screwed a turd, well, worse actually.
No man this is not cool.

What makes it even more sad is the intelligence displayed in this act.
I sometimes prefer to think that animals appear to be more intelligent to us than they truly are (tying to suppress the guilt, maybe?), but this just makes one realize again how incredibly complex they can be.
 
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Every Dog has its day and these peoples sick ways will come to an end. :mad:
 
shakes1 said:
Man, that is so sad. These people are worse than animals, they are not human, its pathetic. Absolute morons!
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That;s the thing, they are very human. And humans have a lot to answer for too there fellow Earth inhabitants.
 
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