Comments | veganpeople: Rescue Of the Dancing Bears

owlsie in veganpeople

Rescue Of the Dancing Bears

Jan 12, 2010 10:53

Kartick Satyanarayan rescues enslaved bears and provides new jobs for their former exploiters.

This was filmed in Nov 2009. So the last bear should be free now :]

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bizwac January 12 2010, 01:22:15 UTC

"There were 1200 dancing bears... We've rescued over 550...and we're rescuing the last dancing bear in India".

What happened to the other ~650 bears?
:(

owlsie January 12 2010, 01:25:38 UTC

maybe they were rescued by other orgs? i've met people who work to save these bears.

bizwac January 12 2010, 01:26:53 UTC

Oh that's a much better explanation than what I was thinking. :)

bitspike January 12 2010, 02:09:39 UTC

Were you thinking they started their own bear space program? If so, I think that's much better than them being rescued =)

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bizwac January 12 2010, 01:24:58 UTC

That is an awesome project though.
Giving people measures to have an income that doesn't depend on exploiting the bears is great. As good as it is to just rescue animals, it's even better to take away the need for people to exploit animals.

owlsie January 12 2010, 01:27:39 UTC

right exactly :]
these people had been doing it for ~centuries~, so it's really all they knew.
now, not only are the bears safe, but the people can expand economically. :]

dagda_ollathir January 12 2010, 01:48:33 UTC

makes ya think about what other animal exploitation situations are similar enough for it to work...

asmallplanet January 12 2010, 02:56:39 UTC

I think it is. If you take something away from people, it is only reasonable to offer them something in return.

Compensation is one thing, but a new career is like the old adage, "Give someone a loaf of bread and feed them for a day, give them land and feed them for life." (Updated for veganism.)

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owlsie January 12 2010, 04:28:40 UTC

yeah.. and the last one would have been freed in December of last year. I wonder how long it took them from start to finish.

edgiko January 12 2010, 05:16:17 UTC

This is really neat! Mind if I link this on my LJ?

edit: Off topic, but whose the little one in your icon? :)

owlsie January 12 2010, 06:09:38 UTC

of course not!

owlsie January 12 2010, 06:10:45 UTC

oh! and the rat in my icon is Odie

starile January 12 2010, 08:19:30 UTC

I'm all for your suggestion in another post to have a thread all about your icons... I really like your baby frog-mouthed owl one :D

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owlsie January 12 2010, 10:41:44 UTC

aw<3 me too
TED is the best. i wish they had given this guy more time tho :