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This year AAF has promoted a campaign to urge the closing down of the 247 so-called "bile farms" where 6992 bears are kept prisoners in very small cages with a catheter stuck in their gall bladder to "milk" bile twice a day. About 7000 kg are extracted every twelve months. Chinese traditional medicine uses about 500 kg of bile a year to treat calculi and fever or as an aphrodisiac, while the remaining amount is used to produce shampoos, wine, eyewash and tonics. The bile squeezed ouf of bears could be easily replaced with vegetal or synthetic compounds, which are considered as effective even by Chinese traditional practitioners.
Three years ago Libby Halliday met Jill Robinson from AAF. She has been filming and recording the rescue of Moonbears since that day. She also worked for BBC for ten years as a documentary maker in Europe, Japan and also Italy. In Asia she worked as an independent film-maker directing programmes on the birth of environmentalist organizations. At present she is shooting another one hour tv documentary on the rescue of bears in China.
Edizione 2001
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DOCUMENTARY
Hong Kong , 2001, 10'
REGIA/DIRECTOR
Libby Halliday
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Bear, Health, Animals, Animal rights, Relationship Between Man And Animals, China
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