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**May 21st, 2011 ** **I have made some corrections.** --**Molly Rogers**  Twenty years ago, Howard-Yana Shapiro, an American **guy ** who is sixty-one today, established "Seeds for Change", a little firm which sold seeds for biological **organic **agriculture.  **Its ** business was fine **went well **and the firm grew **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">up  **. Then, one day in 1997, an unexpected offer arrived: "Mars", the giant company known for its chocolate bars, wanted to buy "Seeds for Change". Although his friends did not agree with the sale of the firm and called him "betrayer", Shapiro decided to proceed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Since 1997 Shapiro has been working for "Mars" as "Global Director of Plant Science and External Research". <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> His friends did not believe that Shapiro would be able to do <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">his work properly/to work well **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">good **in a giant company like "Mars". On the contrary, Shapiro explains his decision in this way: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "If you are interested in defending / safeguarding nature, the scale of your actions has a decisive / crucial importance." Shapiro's project is to realize the change of food industry's behaviour towards the protection of the environment. Today <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">it is known **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we can say **that he got a first important result. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mars, the biggest chocolate-producing company of the world, announced that from now on its whole production of cocoa will follow the rules of sustainable economy: minimum wage for farmers guaranteed, biodiversity in the development of agriculture, conservation of water resources. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This choice will be verified and certified by the ecological organization "Rainforest Alliance". Shapiro says: "I am sure that, following the example of Mars company, the whole food industry will follow this <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">way **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">path **". <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Trad. n° 11: Dancing bears <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The **Dance has <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">finished **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ended **. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">Balkans' bears **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">of the Balkans **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">have not **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">do not have **to dance again to make people enjoy **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">themselves ** and their owner earn money, as they have been doing for centuries. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The ancient craft <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">to make **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">of making **bears <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">dancing under **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dance on **command <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">has finished. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is over. **Maybe people who <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">sold **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">saw **them during trade fairs did not understand that, but dancing was a real torture/agony for those animals. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Times are changing and Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia's laws have been forbidding / prohibiting for **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a **few years the activity of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">holding **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">keeping **a bear for commercial purposes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In Bulgaria, in the town of Betitsa, there is a park devoted to the rescued bears, where all the bears which have been abused can be looked after. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Situated on the mountains, the park has got all the characteristics suitable <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">fot **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">for **bears. These creatures, which have been <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">sweated **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exploited **for a long time, will live in conditions of half freedom because experts assured that, after many years spent in contact with men, they would <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">have not <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">been **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">be **able **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[future in the past] ** to survive in nature. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the town of Belitsa, they can guarantee good conditions of life with the respect <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">of bears' **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to the **requirements and needs **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">of the bears **, such as, for example, the natural habit of hibernation, which <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">has been **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was **denied during the years of captivity. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Today the park gives shelter to 27 bears. In 2007 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">autorities **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the authorities **seized the last 3 dancing bears <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">logged **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">registered **in Bulgaria. In January 2009 the last 3 Serbian bears <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">have been **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">were **rescued. The founders of the park only desire that their guests may live in peace after many years of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">grief **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">suffering **. In the park there is all a bear can appreciate: refuges for hibernation, water puddles, woods and special places where they can sunbathe.

Translation n° 9 : "-- "

Twenty years ago, Howard-Yana Shapiro, an American guy who is sixty-one today, established "Seeds for Change", a little firm which sold seeds for biological agriculture. Its business was fine and the firm grew up. Then, one day in 1997, an unexpected offer arrived: "Mars", the giant company known for its chocolate bars, wanted to buy "Seeds for Change". Although his friends did not agree with the sale of the firm and called him "betrayer", Shapiro decided to proceed. Since 1997 Shapiro has been working for "Mars" as "Global Director of Plant Science and External Research". His friends did not believe that Shapiro would be able to do his work properly/to work well in a giant company like "Mars". On the contrary, Shapiro explains his decision in this way: "If you are interested in defending / safeguarding nature, the scale of your actions has a decisive / crucial importance." Shapiro's project is to realize the change of food industry's behaviour towards the protection of the environment. Today it is known that he got a first important result. Mars, the biggest chocolate-producing company of the world, announced that from now on its whole production of cocoa will follow the rules of sustainable economy: minimum wage for farmers guaranteed, biodiversity in the development of agriculture, conservation of water resources. This choice will be verified and certified by the ecological organization "Rainforest Alliance". Shapiro says: "I am sure that, following the example of Mars company, the whole food industry will follow this way".

Trad. n° 11: Dancing bears Dance has finished. Balkans' bears have not to dance again to make people enjoy and their owner earn money, as they have been doing for centuries. The ancient craft to make bears dancing under command has finished. Maybe people who sold them during trade fairs did not understand that, but dancing was a real torture/agony for those animals. Times are changing and Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia's laws have been forbidding / prohibiting for few years the activity of holding a bear for commercial purposes. In Bulgaria, in the town of Betitsa, there is a park devoted to the rescued bears, where all the bears which have been abused can be looked after. Situated on the mountains, the park has got all the characteristics suitable fot bears. These creatures, which have been sweated for a long time, will live in conditions of half freedom because experts assured that, after many years spent in contact with men, they would have not been able to survive in nature. In the town of Belitsa, they can guarantee good conditions of life with the respect of bears' requirements and needs, such as, for example, the natural habit of hibernation, which has been denied during the years of captivity. Today the park gives shelter to 27 bears. In 2007 autorities seized the last 3 dancing bears logged in Bulgaria. In January 2009 the last 3 Serbian bears have been rescued. The founders of the park only desire that their guests may live in peace after many years of grief. In the park there is all a bear can appreciate: refuges for hibernation, water puddles, woods and special places where they can sunbathe.