We need to stop treating our fellow animal friends as things and commodities--they are feeling, thinking beings who are like us in many respects that matter. Almost any killing of animals in this modern world is unjust and unnecessary. Bears should have just as much right to live without unnecessary suffering and death as humans do. Think not? Well, it was just a short time ago that Americans thought it was proper to own slaves and to deny women the right to vote. It's up to us as a species to strive to end all discrimination including "speciesism," that unjustly accepts only human happiness and freedom as truly important.