It seems like the folks who are all set to pass the US economy engage in some questionable activities that together fuel their economic miracle!
The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself.
The bears were kept in a farm located in a remote area in the North-West of China. The bears on the farm had their gall bladders milked daily for 'bear bile,' which is used as a remedy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
So whats so bad about 'milking' the bears gall bladder for bile?
The bile is harvested by making a permanent hole or fistula in the bears' abdomen and gall bladder.
As the hole is never closed, the animals are suspect to various infections and diseases including tumours, cancers and death from peritonitis.
The bears are fitted with an iron vest, as they often try to kill themselves by hitting their stomach as they are unable to bear the pain.
Not an isolated case in China either!
Just lovely. Unless we grow a backbone the American people will face the same fate; being milked dry in unhealthy way for a poor, nasty, brutish, and short life. Might be Nirvana for 1% however!
How do we communicate to the run of the mill folks who don't seem to know that the current safety net was a reaction to the prescriptions of the right wing, including those of the no way 1 to 10 budget cut/tax adjustment gang of 8?
Bright ideas anyone? Bueller?