MEPs demand action on bear farms

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BBC News
January 10, 2006

The European Parliament has passed a resolution demanding pressure on China to ban the farming of bears for bile.

The bile is extracted from the caged bears' gallbladder by means of a metal catheter, then sold for use in Chinese medicines and cosmetics.

The resolution was approved by more than half of the parliament's 732 members, with cross-party support.

"We want China to shut all the bear farms before the 2008 Olympics," said British Labour MEP Peter Skinner.


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