BBC: Bears Eat Keeper Who Took Their Bile
Gee. I wonder why the bears were upset:
The bile is extracted in an excruciatingly painful process which involves slicing into the animal's flesh and "milking" the substance with a tube.
What the hell is the deal with traditional Chinese medicine's penchant for killing and abusing rhinos, tigers, bears, and other wildlife? Is it a traditional doctrine of theirs that to help humans you have to maim and torture innocent animals?
These traditional superstitions hold that the tiger penis and rhinoceros horn are aphrodisiacs, and that bear bile can be used as a versatile 'medicine'. Riiiiight. Clearly they got their MDs at Hopkins.
This is NOT a matter of cultural relativism - these practices should not be seen as acceptable simply because they cloak themselves in "tradition". This is a matter of sheer ignorant superstition being used to justify appalling immorality.
Go bears! Well done. That ignorant reprobate asswipe got exactly what he deserved: a dose of his own "medicine".
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