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20-year effort to end bear bile farming near completion

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20-year effort to end bear bile farming near completion

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veganEnglish • 15 days ago

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The number of bears kept in captivity in Việt Nam has decreased by an impressive 95 per cent, from approximately 4,000 individuals in 2005 to just 192 at 60 bear farms as of the end of August.

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To end what??
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  A small aspect of carnist witchcraft capitalism.
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  Pseudoscience. Kind of, anyway. Bears produce UCDA which itself has some medical uses, but not for “traditional Chinese medicine”, which is largely rooted in pseudoscience.

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