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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Attachment starts tmr!So i thought i would post something interesting before i would be kept busy and tired for at least e next 6 months.
Anyway have you seen this in the news?
The picture below shows a pink bottlenose dolphin. It belongs to the species of bottlenose dolphins, but it is a albino [it is completely pink from head to tail and it has reddish eyes]
It looks beautiful,doesn't it? (:

Infomation and pictures from the following websites:

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/03/cool_albino_dolphin_spotted_in.php

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158494/Caught-camera-Is-worlds-PINK-dolphin.html

- ♥catherine have spoken at : 11:14 PM

Thursday, March 5, 2009

[i'm not going to post any videos/images on this issue because they're painful and upsetting to watch. You can google it yourself if you want to]

Those who wish to pet and baby wildlife love them, but those who respect their natures and wish to let them live their natural lives, love them more." - Edwin Way Teale, author and naturalist

For this particular post, I’m going to talk about bear bile.

A teacher briefly mentioned it in class one day and the information and images I found on e net is painful to see and know.

Bile bear is also called a battery bear. And this term applys to black bears kept in cages so that bile may be extracted from them. It is a extremely extremely painful process. There are many extraction methods. And I’m sure all are painful. Usually bile is extracted from them twice a day, and it is clearly painful for them, who are seen moaning and chewing their paws during the process. Sometimes the farmers just push a hollow stick through a bear’s abdomen, and the bile runs into a basin under a cage.

The living condition is also really bad. They are kept in cramped small cages to facilitate the “milking” of the bile and most of the time, these cages prevent the bears from standing up straight or even move. And the worst thing is, they live up to 25 years in such condition without free access to food and water and it leads to many complications.

Cubs in captivity are taken from their mothers at 3 months when they have been observed staying with their mothers for up to 18 months in e wild. Some are trained to perform in circuses because the “milking” of gallbladder begins at 3 yrs old.
When the bears stopped producing bile then they are killed for their meat.

Bear bile is believed to have medicinal properties and are often used in traditional Chinese medicine. As stated in Wikipedia, it contains ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) which is believed to reduce fever, break down gallstones, protect liver, improve eyesight etc.

My opinion on this issue:
Would you build your happiness or in this case, build your health at the expense of others? In this case leading to the painful living of the bears? What I mean is even if I were going to die, I would not turn to something like this to keep myself from not dying. Do you feel good consuming or using something like that after knowing the background of how it came from?

And I think these people are…very crazy people. I hate them. Cant they see that it is painful for the bears? And they can actually continue to do that for years? All these just for profits, just for money? I think I would rather starve to death than earn money this way. Really. Mark my words.

Reading all these makes me feel really really upset. Such a big thing is happening, in other countires but how many of us knows? How many of us even bothers?

I know some will ask: why should I care?
But firstly you must understand that everything in this world, we are all connected. They are part of nature. What rights do we have to inflict this kind of pain over them, for our own benefits? That is so so wrong!

http://bearbilefacts.org/
and the above is a site started by 2 individuals who have researched on this issue. I like what they are doing, because they are allowing more people to understand what actually is happening.

http://bearbilefacts.org/83801.html
and the above is written by a lady from Australia. I think she wrote it in a beautiful way. And I can really feel what she is trying to make the readers see.

all e above information mainly taken from the websites below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_bear
http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/wildlife_trade/the_unbearable_trade_in_bear_parts_and_bile/

- ♥catherine have spoken at : 1:28 AM