Caesar the brown bear spent years at a bile farm in China. Trapped in a small cage, she wasn’t able to move much while her bile was harvested from an open wound. Caesar also wore a painful metal vest around her abdomen. When Animals Asia came to rescue her back in 2004, she was in a miserable condition.
“I remember only too well her rescue some four years ago when she bounced violently in her rusting cage on the bear farm in Tianjin and I thought she would crash through,” Jill Robinson, founder of Animals Asia, wrote on their website. “Caesar was understandably a very unhappy bear.” Luckily now, after years of recovery, Caesar’s scars have healed and she’s “in robustly good health”. The majestic bear can finally enjoy a natural life.
“She has now spent a dozen happy years with Animals Asia in Chengdu, enjoying swims in the sunshine as well as indulging her natural digging instincts — particularly when the weather cools in the autumn,” Animals Asia told the Dodo.
The digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder is used in traditional Chinese medicine. Though this notorious practice is widely condemned, it’s estimated that there are around 10,000 bears at China’s bile farms.
More info: animalsasia.org | Instagram (h/t: thedodo)
This bear spent years tortured in a metal vest at a bear bile farm in China
The vest helped to collect the bear’s bile which is used in traditional Chinese medicine
“I remember only too well her rescue…when she bounced violently in her rusting cage…and I thought she would crash through”
“Caesar was understandably a very unhappy bear”
Luckily now, after years of recovery, Caesar can finally enjoy her life
Her scars have healed and she’s “in robustly good health”
She loves her afternoon naps…
…and the freedom of movement
But swimming is her absolute favourite!
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This is terrible. However, simply ragging on chinese for doing this is terribly ignorant when there are numerous industries that do the same thing, like hair care products, pills, make up, and so on. So you really can't and shouldn't pidgeon hole the chinese for doing something that's involved in their traditions, unless you also wrong all the other people. Including giant cow ranchers that shove thousands of cows into a 3 sq acre plot of land waiting to be butchered.
Ohh my heart! He's so beautiful,I hope people that abuse animals die a long,slow and utterly painful death. :,(
The evil humans that did this to this beautiful Bear should be f*****g shot !!
She's a big bear! And how dare those people put that metal death machine on her >:(
i love this nice work!!! if this vest exists that means there must be hundreds if not thousands of Bears being tortured like this for profit. 11046407_1...19a225.jpg 
What the f**k is wrong with those chinese? They f#$king use and kill all sorts of animals(shark fin?) for their personal pleasure. How about eating healthy soil grown foods and exercise a-holes
The Chinese are not the only humans who torture animals. At least they can claim ignorance. We KNOW better and STILL put animals thru all kinds of horrendous treatments.
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Chinese medicine = animal cruelty. Boycott Chinese Meds, "natural products " and anything anymore byproduct.
Not just Chinese meds, and if we boycotted them, there would still be some customers.
Load More Replies... This is terrible. However, simply ragging on chinese for doing this is terribly ignorant when there are numerous industries that do the same thing, like hair care products, pills, make up, and so on. So you really can't and shouldn't pidgeon hole the chinese for doing something that's involved in their traditions, unless you also wrong all the other people. Including giant cow ranchers that shove thousands of cows into a 3 sq acre plot of land waiting to be butchered.
Ohh my heart! He's so beautiful,I hope people that abuse animals die a long,slow and utterly painful death. :,(
The evil humans that did this to this beautiful Bear should be f*****g shot !!
She's a big bear! And how dare those people put that metal death machine on her >:(
i love this nice work!!! if this vest exists that means there must be hundreds if not thousands of Bears being tortured like this for profit. 11046407_1...19a225.jpg
What the f**k is wrong with those chinese? They f#$king use and kill all sorts of animals(shark fin?) for their personal pleasure. How about eating healthy soil grown foods and exercise a-holes
The Chinese are not the only humans who torture animals. At least they can claim ignorance. We KNOW better and STILL put animals thru all kinds of horrendous treatments.
Load More Replies... Chinese medicine = animal cruelty. Boycott Chinese Meds, "natural products " and anything anymore byproduct.
Not just Chinese meds, and if we boycotted them, there would still be some customers.
Load More Replies...
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