Showing posts with label Chinese medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese medicine. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Shut Down Kiev Zoo For Inhumane Treatment Of Animals




Kiev Zoo in Ukraine is being criticized for an irresponsible treatment of zoo animals by critics from all over the world. Kiev Zoo is almost a century old and for the longest time it was praised but in the past two years something has definitely gone wrong.

The old managers were replaced also and the new management is extremely corrupt who are illegally selling off the zoo animals. Of ten the purchased animals never arrive at the zoo. In fact, the money given to buy food and medicine for animals has disappeared many times too.

There have been too many animal deaths in the last one year, including an Indian elephant named Boy who just collapsed and died in his enclosure. It is said that Boy's diet was changed extremely and it ultimately caused his heart failure.

Similarly, a camel died of a digestive illness and a zebra crashed into a metal fence and died. The animals seem to die mysteriously or disappear suddenly. In December, fish died in a tank because of power outage that ended up cutting the oxygen.

The management is so corrupt that it is difficult to keep track of their illegal deals that in turn all this is hurting the animals at the zoo. They want to kill or sell the animals so that they can ultimately sell the land.

Amazingly, almost 300 to 500 animals have died at the zoo in the past two and half years and till the zoo is closed down, animal lovers are worried that we will only witness more animal deaths in the following years.

Please spread the word around and protest in your own way for the safety of the animals in Kiev Zoo who are left in the hands of a selfish management.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Tell China: Don't Support Bear Bile Farms



In China, bears are farmed for their bile, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The bears are housed in coffin-size cages and the bile is extracted through a tube implanted in their gall bladders. 

Bears farmed for their bile suffer immensely, Many get infections and liver cancer, and they typically only live 5 years compared with 25 years in the wild. 

Now, the Gui Zhen Tang Pharmaceutical Corporation, which produces bear bile, wants inclusion in the Shenzheng Stock Exchange. Allowing this company into the stock exchange will send a message that bear bile farming is okay: We can't let that happen. 

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Put a Stop to Bear Bile Farming

Bear bile farming is an alarming practice taking place in China, whereby Asiatic black bears are captured and used to provide bile from their gall bladders. The bile is found in popular ancient Chinese medicine.

The bile extraction process is extremely painful for the bears, and is hardly ever performed in a sterile manner. In fact, about half of all bears caught for their bile end up dying from complications of the procedure. We need to end this inhumane act of torture immediately. Send a letter to the World Society for the Protection of Animals to support their efforts to abolish bear bile farming forever.

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