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Animal Asia Foundation's Short Video End Bear Farming

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Animal Asia Foundation’s short video “End Bear Farming” (2001) demonstrates how most bears in China, especially moon bears, are suffering. These animals endure extreme level of pain in environments where many diseases can develop through immoral and disgusting actions such as bear bile extraction from living bears without anesthetics. In recent articles Ryunosuke Kikuchi, IK Loeffler, J Robinson and G Cochrane have offered harsh critiques encouraging people to stop this cruel action. There are some images in “Compromised Health and Welfare of Bears Farmed for Bile in China” (Loeffler, Robinson and Cochrane 228-229) and text which show the method of bile extraction. Bears typically suffer chronic physical and psychological torture, even death (Loeffler, …show more content…

The result by Halls (International Union for Conservation of Nature) is reported by Kikuchi in his writing “Captive Bears in Human-Animal Welfare Conflict: A Case Study of Bile Extraction on Asia’s Bear Farms”, “The world population of Asiatic black bears has declined by 30-49% over the past 30 years” (Kikuchi 56). This outcome is not only affecting the bear population for now, it also influence it in the long term. There are several aspects can prove this situation, which is the rescued bears will not survive by themselves without human since they need medication in the rest of their life; most of them will lose their hunting skills since they have kept in the cage from couple years or even after they were born; and they will be hard to have reproduction if the suffer in the physical and mental illness, such as liver cancer or anxiety. Thus, the bile extraction hinders/against seriously the animal welfare since those bears do not need to suffer the hunger, pain, and fear, even people are not necessary to use the bile for the illness. Also, it can reflect there is a serious problem by using large

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