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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFreed from a bile farm, Tuffy the bear jumps for joy!
MIAMI (CBSMiami) A bear caged and in pain for years got his first taste of a pool at an animal sanctuary after he was saved from a bile farm.
Cameras captured Tuffy the bear jumping for joy in his first days outside at the Animals Asias sanctuary in Vietnam.
Tuffy was rescued back in September from a tiny cage in a farm where they would extract his bile which is still used in traditional Asian medicine.
A vet team worked to rehabilitate Tuffy and even had to remove his gall bladder because it was so damaged from the bile extraction. He also had painfully dry and cracked paws.
Coming from years of little or no water, for Tuffy this must feel like a true oasis after being parched and in pain for so long. It must have felt like such a relief to have the freedom to splash around in the water after only being able to stand on the hard metal bars of the bile farm cage, said Animals Asia Bear Manager Louise Ellis.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/04/20/video-bear-saved-from-bile-farm-jumps-for-joy-in-pool/
lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)I am so happy to hear that one, at least, got out. I would love to see them all safe. Humans suck sometimes.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Traditional Asian medicine is responsible for many endangered species too.
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)Thanks!
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)sick that my species thinks nothing of inflicting things like this on our fellow travelers on this planet.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)I say this as I'm lounging with my three rescued dogs crowded on top of me, snoozing.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Those dogs will never forget your kindness.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)More must be done to save these poor creatures. According to the article there are over 10,000!! more bears being tortured in bile farms in Asia.
Humans really suck.
zazen
(2,978 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)Fuck "traditional Asian medicine".
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Damn Chinese also making elephants, tigers and rhinos extinct. Among many others for their fucking Asian medicine.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Thanks for the extra chuckle.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)Sometimes I wonder about the human species...
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)arikara
(5,562 posts)Big pharma does extremely cruel things to animals too.
http://www.horsefund.org/pmu-fact-sheet.php
...horses are confined to stalls so small that they cannot turn around or take more than one step in any direction.
The animals must wear rubber urine-collection bags at all times, which causes chafing and lesions.
Once the foals are born, the horses are re-impregnated; this cycle continues for about 12 years...
This cruelty for a drug that doesn't work and causes further medical problems.
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Not to mention the horrific things big pharma does to animals in clinical trials.
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Do you know that if you advertise "free to a good home" dogs and cats that often the people who come for them are paid by big pharma for each animal they bring. I read somewhere that they are so slick about pretending they want the pet that they even bring a little kid along as part of the ruse.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)You'll supply objective evidence to support your woo, yes?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)But the perverts that inflict such torture upon animals (and humans too)...make me sick and SO fucking angry.
Jail the perverts for life.
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)That is one happy bear!
trotsky
(49,533 posts)A lot of people get upset when bunkum like that is railed against. "What's the harm?" they ask.
That right there is the harm. Congrats, Tuffy. Hope you live out the rest of your life in peace and happiness.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)This bear is so dang happy!