652 “Battery Bears” Languish in Caged Squalor While Awaiting Death

SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – According to environmental group Green Korea, the last vestiges of South Korea’s bear-bile farming industry are surviving in cramped cages, subsisting on insufficient feed and living in their own filth. Bear-bile farming began in 1981 as a means of generating extra income for the agricultural industry, a practice that [...]