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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

pandr32

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1. This is disgusting and the horns are useless medically.

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2024, 02:20 PM

Feb 27

It is time that these folk-lore type medical cures for ED and other things were addresses in an information blitz. China should run a campaign to end this kind of needless poaching.
I am Canadian born with family still there and there has been poaching of black bears for their paws and gallbladders. These are used for medicines and as delicacies (paws).
It is high time for the Chinese government to start educating their people about believing that parts of threatened animals have magical/curative powers.
They need to be pressured.

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Fear for rhinos as poachers kill 500 in South Africa [View all] douglas9 Feb 27 OP

This is disgusting and the horns are useless medically. pandr32 Feb 27 #1

The black bear thing... 2naSalit Feb 27 #2

There was an expos done in Vancouver by a Chinese/Canadian journalist. pandr32 Feb 27 #3

Happened in the touristown... 2naSalit Feb 27 #5

Probably paid protection. pandr32 Feb 27 #8

More than likely... 2naSalit Feb 27 #9

My wife saw a documentary somewhere where a black bear was held in a cage and "milked" for bile through LT Barclay Feb 27 #11

Operation Bite Back predated the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act by around a decade. flvegan Mar 4 #12

Thanks for the offer, but a right leaning democrat is still preferable to any republican. Maybe there was a day long LT Barclay Mar 4 #13

I think a non profit sending free Viagra to China along with a billboard campaign LT Barclay Feb 27 #6

Free Viagra sounds okay, but... pandr32 Feb 27 #7

We'll have to find a culturally relevant athlete! Maybe some "scientific" studies, see if eating spiders enables people LT Barclay Feb 27 #10

I consider myself a peaceful person.... Ferrets are Cool Feb 27 #4