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bear bile · about 12,000 bears
about 12,000 bears live in cages in china and vietnam with a tube or an open wound in the gallbladder, milked for bile. the active ingredient, ursodeoxycholic acid, has been made in a laboratory since 1954 and is in every pharmacy.
method Animals Asia; Feng et al. 2009.
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how this number is built
- method
- Animals Asia; Feng et al. 2009.
- range
- 10,000–12,000 bears
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- no registry; NGO counts.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-109 · corrections are credited
- data
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