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Dear Sir or Madam
Bear bile could help to prevent arrhythmia in heart attack sufferers
I am writing to you to register my deep disappointment about your above article. I have known the Daily Mail in the past to support anti-cruelty campaigns, but with this attention grabbing and totally misleading headline you are actively encouraging a vile, disgusting and unimaginably cruel trade. Your reporter seems to have written this story without any knowledge of the suffering that bears that are farmed for bile go through. If you are unaware of bear farming, please watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/user/HKAAF?ob=5#p/u/10/PENl5091uAM
The research from Imperial College was based on synthesised UDCA, not actual bear bile. But your reports and headline give the impression that the use of actual bear bile is being recommended.
The reality of bear farming is that an estimated 14,000 bears are being kept in tiny cages across Asia, starved and dehydrated, and milked for their bile. The bile removed from farmed bears is thick and infected, containing blood, pus, urine and faeces and is collected in unsterilised basins.
Many of these endangered species are captured illegally from the wild. Some are drugged, restrained and have their abdomens jabbed with unsterilised four inch needles until their gall bladders are punctured to release the bile. Others are milked through open infected abdominal wounds, or catheters made from latex or rusty metal.
They are pumped full of antibiotics and other drugs just to keep them alive. Most of them develop massive infections, multiple diseases and malignant tumours that ultimately kill them. They are often kept in tiny cages for up to 30 years – the space is so small that they can’t even turn around."
I strongly urge you to publish an article about the reality of bear bile farming, showing images of farmed bears, rather than a free bear happily leaping after salmon, as far removed from the horrendous reality as anything could possibly be. Yours an other irresponsible reporters' stories are encouraging a barbaric trade that should have been stopped long ago. Quite apart from the torture the bears endure the bile collected from such sick bears has been known to kill humans who take it rather than cure them.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Yours faithfully,
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