Intelligent, doomed animals [Archive]

Moon

03-11-2013, 05:54 PM

Bear bile (https://www.care2.com/causes/6-bears-rescued-from-bile-farm.html) is prized in traditional Chinese medicine, and the demand for it has led to mass production. Bear farmers lock moon bears into “crush cages,” so small the bears can’t move. Then farmers puncture their gall bladders to siphon off their bile. A mother killed her baby (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025388/China-Tortured-mother-bear-kills-cub-herself.html) and herself to end the torture of life on a bear bile farm. She hugged her cub until it suffocated, then drove her own head into a wall.

A cow understood that the farmer knew she had been pregnant, that he was expecting a calf, and that he would take her calves away as he had all her previous babies. So she hatched a plan. In the morning she brought one of her calves to the farmer, so that he would be satisfied. She hid the other calf in the woods at the edge of the pasture. Every day and every night, she stayed with her baby—the first she had been able to nurture FINALLY—and her calf nursed her dry with gusto.That gusto led to a glitch the poor mother had not anticipated. Her udder was empty every time the farmer tried to milk her. Eventually he figured things out, found the bull calf, and stole him away.

1eye

03-13-2013, 11:18 AM

Bear bile (https://www.care2.com/causes/6-bears-rescued-from-bile-farm.html) is prized in traditional Chinese medicine, and the demand for it has led to mass production. Bear farmers lock moon bears into “crush cages,” so small the bears can’t move. Then farmers puncture their gall bladders to siphon off their bile. A mother killed her baby (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025388/China-Tortured-mother-bear-kills-cub-herself.html) and herself to end the torture of life on a bear bile farm. She hugged her cub until it suffocated, then drove her own head into a wall.

A cow understood that the farmer knew she had been pregnant, that he was expecting a calf, and that he would take her calves away as he had all her previous babies. So she hatched a plan. In the morning she brought one of her calves to the farmer, so that he would be satisfied. She hid the other calf in the woods at the edge of the pasture. Every day and every night, she stayed with her baby—the first she had been able to nurture FINALLY—and her calf nursed her dry with gusto.That gusto led to a glitch the poor mother had not anticipated. Her udder was empty every time the farmer tried to milk her. Eventually he figured things out, found the bull calf, and stole him away.


It sickens me no end when i read stuff like this. And it's going on day and night all over the world. Life IS suffering, and not just for humans. And the suffering we humans inflict upon other beings and upon the earth is just horrendous.
It seems inevitable that our ever-increasing population will eventually be the end of us all, one way or another.
IMHO, that day will not come soon enough. Hopefully we don't fuck-up the planet so much that other species cannot survive. As a species, humanity is doomed. But that's the way it goes, cosmically speaking.
Meanwhile, have a great day! & Make Love, Not War.

Moon

03-14-2013, 12:00 AM

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Thank you for this photo!