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Yeah, the asian bear bile farms are horrible - they also have them in North Korea BTW, there's a shock.

The worst part is that the reason they were first invented was to SAVE the brown bear - to keep them for being hunted to extinction for their gall bladders for chinese traditional medicine. To save them from extinction, they locked thousands in cages with tubes stuck in the gall bladder to drain bile. Bitterly ironic, I think!

It seems they are shutting it all down gradually... It's about time.

I have no problem eating animals - but I think we are responsible to treat them with kindnessand certainly not torture them for something so stupid.

I have nothing against hunting and meat eating. But Chinese treatment of those bears to get their bile ranks high in barbaric acts towards animals. Truely disgusting and I never heard about it though I know a bit about Chinese herbal medicine and have used it. I have some concoction slow brewing right now in my cabinet. It's a combo of herbs your pour whiskey or vodka over and let steep for a few months.

Chinese love to take weird stuff for longevity and virility and bear bile is one of them. It's a bitter tonic I suppose and who knows if it really works