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May 21, 2013 11:11 pm PDT
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In China, controversy over Bear bear bile farming as Asia's animal rights movementgrows
In the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports on new outrage over the business of selling bile extracted from Asiatic black bears, a threatened species also known as the moon bear. The extraction process requires open wounds for "milkings" that take place three times a day. "The bears teeth are invariably worn down from gnawing [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/A3Xv4tnyLEw/story01.htm
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