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ANIMAL CRUELTY IN THE EAST-updates The Chinese Bears Torture The agonising torture of Chinese bears continues. These creatures are held captive throughout their whole life, held down horizontally by cages which are no bigger than the animals themselves. The bears cannot move at all and are left to soak in their own urine and faeces, which burns their skin. Permanent tubes are inserted into the live animal to extract bile - a fluid used in traditional Chinese medicine and everything from hair shampoo to wine. Bear bile is sold openly in many recently surveyed shops in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States. A recent report by the The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) says that the bears are facing extinction in the wild. The report accuses the farms of accleleratiing the disappearance of Asiatic brown and black bears and sun bears in the wild. more of these bears are sought in the wild to replace those dying on farms. About 7,000 bears are kept at more than 200 farms across China in these excessively cruel conditions. The bears only live to around 10 years in these appalling conditions, which is about a third of their normal life expectancy. Other related Looking-Glass News stories ... Cruel entertainment of Indian bear dancing Is China finally responding to global opinion that it mistreats its animals?The beginning of 2000 saw the launch of a 10 day campaign to crack down on the thriving illegal trade in endangered species, which end up on Chinese dinner plates. The campaign covered four Chinese provinces and led to the rescue of more than 13,000 animals, 4000 of which were on China's protected species list. It has also led to nearly 400 suspected poachers being arrested. The South China tiger, the Yangtze River dolphin and most notably the giant panda are among the most endangered. But other less well-known snakes, lizards and birds also are widely hunted and sold to restaurants. The message of compassion appears to reach the Chinese public through various news publications, and it was hoped that the trend towards a more caring view of their wild animals would expand further. Looking-Glass
comments (update): If there is an element of propaganda involved in this recent turnaround of compassion we hope that the effect will at least influence the Chinese public for the better cause.
THAILAND KING PETITIONED TO STOP BARBARIC DOG AND CAT SLAUGHTERING In 2000 Kim Cooling,
a British animal compassionate petitioned the King of Thailand to stop
the slaughter of some 33,000 dogs, which are killed in the country's
northeast every year for their meat and skins. Until now, Kim's
groundbreaking work in Thailand has been rarely documented through the
media. Looking-Glass and VeggieGlobal realigns this oversight and exclusively
brings you the story of Kim Cooling, a true heroine of animal compassion.
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PIGLETS BURRIED ALIVE IN SOUTH KOREA In May 2002, The Sunday Times UK carried a pictorial report showing live piglets being poured out of a back of a truck and straight into a pit - alive. An apparent threat of foot and mouth disease in South Korea seems to allow quarantine officers to carry out such barbaric methods of "disposal". The picture was taken in Ansung - south of Seoul.
These articles last updated or added to in: January2003
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