End Chinese bear-bile farming, says UK animal rights activist

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End Chinese bear-bile farming, says UK animal rights activist

A new campaign says medicine made from bile extracted from caged bears is unethical and may be harmful to humansA British animal rights activist joined hands with practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine on Monday to call for an end to bear-bile farming, which they say is cruel and unsafe. The new campaign against the ancient practice targets pharmaceutical companies, such as Kaibao, that make fever suppressants from bile extracted drip by drip from holes punched into the bodies of thousands of caged bears.