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[Hyalucent]

I would SOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo love to introduce these people to the expression, "Some days you eat the bear; some days the bear eats you."

[tsgarp]

dogbert, are your feelings hurt? You should be upset that people are engaged in this kind of illegal activity period but these people are criminals and would probably be doing something wrong anyway. Your outrage that it's being perpetrated by Koreans seems to be overly emotional.
hyalucent, Bear gall bladders and bile is used to treat convulsion during high fevers, delirium from extensive burns, hot skin lesions, redness and swelling of the eyes and traumatic injuries. It has nothing to do with penile dysfunction. Whether it works or not is another story. You need to learn a little about Oriental medicine before you go showing off your ignorance.

[shawner88]

My students told me deer antlers are extremely valuable here for making medicine, but it's illegal to export them from the US.

[Hyalucent]

[dogbert]

[hellofaniceguy]

We are forgetting the number one reason for these senseless killings; koreans and other Asian men seem to thing that the parts of these certain animals are aphrodisiacs. It has to do with staying hard. Using these animal parts for medicine? Very few women use these animal parts. It's not about 100% medicine use. Until koreans and others wake up and learn some techniques and realize that it's not the animals, it won't stop. If the animal parts made for better lovers, hell, every man in the world would be bear hunting! And then beaver hunting!

[rapier]

My guess is that the problem of Korean impotence/ erectile dysfunction could probably be solved by less smoking, less drinking, less work, more exercise, and better man to woman relationships all round. But back to bears....
TSgarp: I agree that bear farming is an incredibly inhumane kind of exploitation...but looking realistically, its unlikely to stop in asia anytime this century. And its a better option than poachers killing the last remaining wild stock.
As a conservationist I believe you have to forget moral issues to some degree and just work with the reality of the situation as far as you can... Of course, ideally, I'd prefer that bear farming didn't exist and the poverty- stricken masses looked after bears and their habitat purely for the joy of doing so. But Asians look upon animals as either food, cash cows, or vermin to be pushed out of the way.
Its a sad fact that most wildlife is viewed as a waste of space- unless someone can make money from it. In order to secure the future of wildlife on the whole, it has to pay for itself.

[Chonbuk]

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