Featured Site: Animals Asia Foundation. You might be surprised to know that an estimated 10,000 bears in China are kept in a horizontal position, in cages that look rather like coffins. They wear metal collars, are immobilized by pressure bars, and have metal or rubber tubes surgically placed in their body that drain bile from their gall bladders. Unfortunately, the bears are imprisoned in this manner as long as they survive--up to 15-20 years.

Bear Bile is used to produce efficacious medicines with a 3,000 year history, but it is today totally replaceable with herbs and synthetics. In the market today, there is an oversupply of bear bile, so the farmers are looking for new markets, placing it in ridiculous things like shampoo. Animals Asia workers recently saw a can of "Bear Bile Soda" !!!!

The Animals Asia "China Bear Rescue Program" is taking positive action to end "Bear Farming" in China. Animals Asia has signed an unprecedented agreement with the Chinese authorities to rescue 500 Moon Bears! A sanctuary has been prepared for the bears, and we just hears from an Animals Asia representative who let us know that the first 63 bears have been moved to their new home, and have begun their recovery to health.

You could order a dessert next time you go out to eat, buy a bag of popcorn at the show, order another drink at the club, get a bag of french fries with your burger, or do one of the many frivolous things we all do with our money... or you could save that money just one time (or more if you want to :-) and SEND A DONATION to help creatures in the world that really need you.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is also working diligently to rescue the Moon Bears in the "Bear Farms" of Asia.