October 12, 2005

Chinese farmer extracts live bear bile, gets expelled

Did you know that animal keepers in China and other Asian countries keep bears in order to do live extractions of bile from their gall bladders? Needless to say, this bile is part of traditional Chinese medicine. And, the gallbladders themselves are also sold.

Needless to say, the bile extraction is probably not a painless procedure, and bear farmer Han Shigen found out the hard way that the bears don't like it: he was attacked and eaten by six of them on Monday: "Abuse was too much to bear".

Posted to Miscellania at October 12, 2005 10:26 AM

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