this made my cry... what's wrong with people?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025388/China-Tortured-mother-bear-kills-cub-herself.html


A mother bear has reportedly strangled her cub and then killed herself by running head first into a wall to save them both from a life of torture.
The bears were reportedly having their gall bladders milked daily for 'bear bile' which is used in traditional Chinese medicine to remove 'heat' from the body as well as to treat liver ailments and sore eyes.
The bile, a digestive juice, is harvested through a permanent hole in the abdomen and gall bladder of Asiatic black bears, which, as it is open permanently, is susceptible to infections and diseases which can cause the animals unbearable pain.


Caged: It has been reported that the mother and cub were being kept in tiny cages, like this bear, known as 'crush cages' which restricted their movement

This often leads bears trying to kill themselves by punching themselves in the stomach. To stop this they are fitted with iron vests.


It has been reported that the mother and cub were being kept in tiny cages known as 'crush cages' which restricted their movement, on a farm in a remote part of North-West of China, according to website Asia One.
The methods used to extract bile causes severe pain and trauma to the bears, who occupy tiny cages.


Bear farmers sometimes argue that by supplying the demand for bear bile their industry protects wild bears


One witness told Reminbao.com that the mother bear broke out of its cage when it heard her cub in distress before a worker punctured its stomach to milk the bile.
The mother bear rushed to its cub and hugged it until it eventually strangled it before running head-first into a wall, killing itself.
According to Singapore Seen, the witness, who has not been named, said: 'When a worker wanted to open up her cub’s stomach, the mother bear broke open the cage and went after the cub.

'After failing to release the chained cub, she hugged the cub.

'Then, the mother bear killed the cub to save it from a life of hell.'

Bears can be farmed for their bile for around 20 years, before they stop producing it and are killed.

Critics, including Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, have opposed the use of bear bile in their treatments and increasing numbers are turning to herbal and synthetic alternatives.



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And everybody is just gonig to ignore this. We can literally go no further into the realm of evil. We have actually managed to cause what amounts to an instinctual oxymoron.

Endtimes use to sound very unlikely, but it's starting to seem like the only possible place we could go from this point.

 

i just dont understand how workers or certain (evil) people can hear a bear or any animal crying and still hurt it. i doubt gallbladder acid even has any medicinal properties so they should probably join the 21st century...

 

also it must be insane disgusting conditions and horrible pain if an animal can go against all basic instincts of nature and end up killing its offspring and itself...

 

I've known about this for quite a while... but in a country that also skins millions of animals alive for fur every year, what else can be expected? Certain humans truly are the sickest, most vilest forms of life on this planet. Cockroaches should feel shame at sharing the planet with the likes of such "people".

 

This is far more disturbing than skinning even millions of dead animals.

 

Skinning any sentient being alive is one of the most horrific, barbaric, and immensely cruel ways you can kill something. The suffering you would endure in that situation would be unimaginable. The treatment of these bears is just as disturbing, but not more so. The bears' plight might go on for longer, but that doesn't make the plight of animals used for the chinese fur industry any less despicable and cruel. The methods employed in both "industries" are just as barbaric and inhumane as each other.

 

I'm not really animal person - It's not that I don't like them, it's I just don't feel that I could give them the care and affection and indeed freedom that they deserve, still ...
Cruelty is something that appalls - some people are shits!

 

Alive, yes. But of course that's not common policy in the industry..

 

It does happen in the chinese fur industry, which kills more animals for fur than anywhere else in the world.

 

"The Moral progress of a nation can be judged by the way its' animals are treated." Mohandas Gandhieace:

 

Extracing bile is IMO the same as killing for ivory -cruel , unnecessary and inhumane and i bet it has absolutely no medical benifit what so ever

 

I don't understand how people can see those things as the same. You kill an elephant and get it's ivory (dreadful nevertheless) but with extracting this bile stuff the bear is actually kept alive with an open wound and if that isn't enough it's generally also under bad conditions like being locked up in a small space and being mistreated.

 

Why criticize other countries- we have in our own countries millions of meat eaters for which millions of animals are mistreated in industrial mass farming as well as for pharma industries gruesome experiments on animals, cosmetic industry and others mistreating animals as well as millions of animals kept locked in appartments as pets for fun.

You cant help the animals on the other side of the world but you can stop eating meat, make people stop eating meat and stop consuming things for which animals are suffering in your OWN country. There are millions of animals mistreated in your own country you could never ever save all of them not even at home...Show to each meat- eater you know a film about industrial meat production to start with

 

Because this is something different as killing for food... Why can we not help animals on the other side of the world? I'm pretty glad people are messing with actions in other countries otherwise animals like the tiger, panda and most likely also certain whales are bound to get extinct. Just because we have problems with our bio-industry and some pets are mistreated here we should stay out of this pathetic bear bile business in China? By the way, you're not in the first place criticizing the country when you spread awareness about this but only that particular business.

 

Yeh its absolutely terrible, it astounds me how on earth people can be so heartless to do this, as a human being how can you be witness to such cruelty but continue to do it, anyone would think it is physically and mentally impossible to inflict such cruelty on another living being, heartless bastards.

 

the millions of victims of industrialized mass farming are not only suffering when they get killed- they suffer all their miserable life long.

And why the hell do people here eat meat? Its the must unnecessary thing in the world. Its a gigantic waste of land, energy, time and food.

Look at some of those Buddhist people- they have lived for centuries without eating meat and they are not sicker or weaker or more degenerated that us.

 

We eat meat because it's nutritious and tasty, perhaps not out of necessity indeed. Anyway, of course there is suffering in the industries here as well but this does not mean we can't proclaim our disgust about other kinds of suffering. I guess you think this is hypocritical? I just think there's a difference. I'm all for better conditions for the animals in the meat industry here in the western world and cutting back on eating meat is a great start. I do not feel the need to stop eating meat totally though. On the other hand, if you can't use bear bile without extracting it from a living bear's open wound while it's living in a cage not much bigger than itself you can't use bear bile in my opinion.

 

Torturing animals to death:



I think what we do to thousands of animals every day is no better.

 

Of course not, especially not in lab research. So what?