China promotes bear bile as treatment for disease traced to wildlife

Well there goes the last of the Panada's. First you eat what is essentially road kill then, you attack a whole species of animals because some charlatan told you it was a cure for what you shouldn't have eaten in the first place. Only in China.


FFS China has to stop eating everything that walks, flies or crawls and they'd be one hell of alot better off.

Man the Chinese are weird people when it comes to medicine. In some ways they are incredibly knowledgeable and innovative, and yet in other ways it's like their medical information is stuck firmly in Europe's Middle Ages.

Gonna be a catastrophe for North American bears too as every piece of poacher scum tries to cash in on the black market money the Chinese will be circulating among the criminal element in order to satisfy the demand. Just like they did in Africa, and basically wiped out all the rhinos in less than twenty years because disgusting old Chinese men believe that ingesting powdered rhino horn will give them an erection, they'll do to bears everywhere.

Say, are we even allowed to talk about this in this kind of thread? Or is it massively racist to bring up how absolutely reprehensible certain other cultures around the world can be, when they wipe out entire animal species based on nothing more than witch-doctor "medicine"?

You said other cultures "can" be. I think you're safe

In actuality tho… twitter will absolutely call you a racist. Up to you how much you care about twitter <shrug>

The problem with Twitter is too many twits.

Also the great thing about it

As long as I remember that these aren't real people and their opinions don't matter, I get a great deal of amusment out of seeing strawmen come to life