Originally posted by the Bear:
in other news... vengence! 
[b]Farmer eaten by own animals
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man who raised bears to tap them for
their bile, prized as a traditional medicine in Asia, has been
killed and eaten by his animals, Xinhua news agency said on
Tuesday.
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Six black bears attacked keeper Han Shigen as he was cleaning their
pen in the northeastern province of Jilin on Monday, Xinhua
said.
"The ill-fated man died on the spot and was eaten up by the
ferocious bears," it said, citing a report in the Beijing
News.
In practices decried by animal rights groups, bile is extracted
through surgically implanted catheters in the bear's gall bladders,
or by a "free-dripping" technique by which bile drips out through
holes opened in the animals' abdomens.
More than 200 farms in China keep about 7,000 bears to tap their
bile, which traditional Chinese medicine holds can cure fever,
liver illness and sore eyes.
Bear farming was far more widespread before the cruelty involved
came to light and Beijing introduced regulations to control the
industry in 1993.
Animal welfare groups have called on China to completely ban bear
farming, arguing that traditional herbal medicines can serve the
same purposes as bear bile.
Xinhua said police sent to the scene of Monday's killing injected
one of the bears with tranquillisers "but failed to tame the mad
animal".
Police then threw meat into the bears' pen to distract them so they
could recover Han's remains, it said without elaborating.
(source:
Yahoo! News)[/b]
your bosses should be very afraid of you.. 
