Essays Tagged: "Bile bear"

Bear Bile

Why would you like to milk a bear for its bile without anaesthetic? Baby black bears are taken from their wild mothers and are made to perform ... re taken from their wild mothers and are made to perform. When they are adults they are sold to the bile farmers for $531 - 759 New Zealand dollars. There are 247 official bear farms across China. The ... ms have at least 7002 bears.In china these bears are surgically mutilated and milked for their gall bile. An opening is surgically made through the abdominal area and into the gall bladder. A tube is ...

(1 pages) 1290 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases