We Should Ban Bear Bile Farming

First of all I would like to thank you for choosing to take the time to read my blog. You may or may not know about the terrible practice of Moon Bear farming, but if you don't, I would like to tell you the truth about what really happens. My aim is to raise awareness and inform you about the practice of Moon Bear Farming and to explain to you, my readers, what it really is.

Moon bear farming is when Moon Bears are kept in agonizing captivity just so their bile can be extracted from them. The bile is then used in traditional Chinese medicines, some of which are just said to cure a simple headache. The farmers extract the bile using extremely painful methods, and the wounds that are made during the procedure leave the bears in agony every hour of every day.

The bears are kept in small, cramped cages and sometimes the bears can’t even lie down, so they have to live standing up, which puts them through even more unbearable pain.

Bear farms currently exist in China, Vietnam and Korea, even though it is illegal to extract bile from bears in Vietnam and Korea. Japan, Korea, Vietnam and China have the highest demand for bear bile, although bear parts, bile powder and bile products, are also found in Taiwan, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the US and Canada.


The practice of bear farming is completely pointless, as there are over 50 herbal remedies that are a perfectly suitable alternative for the bear bile that they extract and use for traditional Chinese medicines. Those innocent bears go through all of that pain for nothing.

Some Chinese pharmacies and chemists display a sticker on the window of their shop, reading; ‘Healing without harm’, which tells us that the shop is against the practice of bear farming-A very good sign.

There are two main charities that help raise money to stop the practice of bear farming, these charities are the ‘The Animals Asia Foundation’ and ‘World Society for the Protection of Animals-WSPA’. For more information, visit http://www.animalsasia.org/ or http://www.wspa.org.uk/ .

The founder of ‘The Animals Asia Foundation’ is called Jill Robinson. She started the foundation, when in 1993, an undercover visit to a bear farm in southern China changed Jill’s life, exposing the plight of endangered Moon Bears cruelly farmed and milked for their bile. Jill knew how easily herbs and synthetics could replace bear bile, and so she embarked on a journey to end the practice of bear farming once and for all.

In 1995, Jill secured the release of the original bears that she had discovered, changing their lives forever. In 1998, she founded Animals Asia to rescue and raise awareness of the plight of the Moon Bears. In July 2000 she and the Animals Asia team rescued 500 farmed bears. With your help, we can save more.

Thank you again for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you have now been informed about the practice of Moon Bear farming. I would be very grateful if you would please post me a response answering the following questions, If you do post a response, please could you tell me where you’re from, i.e. your home town or country (if you don’t live in the UK!)

 Had you ever heard about the practice of Moon Bear farming?
 Do you now feel informed about Moon Bear farming?
 Would you be willing to donate to ‘The Animals Asia Foundation’ or ‘WSPA’?
 Would you persuade your family and friends to support the charities?

Many thanks! Rose.