China company opens bear bile farm to media

Thursday, 23 February 2012

China company opens bear bile farm to media

Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2012

A traditional Chinese medicine company at the heart of an angry Internet campaign accusing it of cruelty to animals opened one of its controversial bear bile farms to journalists on Wednesday. Bear bile has long been used in China to treat various health problems, despite scepticism over its effectiveness and outrage over the bile extraction process, which animal rights group say is excrucia

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Source: Associated Press A documentary screening event organized by animal welfare group Animals Asia Foundation in Beijing called for an end to bear bile farming, the practice of extracting bile from the gall bladders of living bears. (Feb. 23)

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