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.

Really picked up out here about decade ago. The poachers aren't given much for consequences.

He was able to go into restaurants in Chinatown and blend in. He went to several to find if he could order bear paw dishes off the menu and was quite successful. Ditto for visiting medicine shops and finding illegal endangered animal offerings.
I wish I could remember what year this was, but it was likely in the 1990s.

Where I lived after a new Chinese restaurant opened up. It was like the Chinese mafia in there, they always hired the ruzzian waitresses. They got busted more than once by F&G but got minuscule fines and stayed in business.

Corruption is a huge problem.

It's ubiquitous it seems.

an implanted tube, and held in a tiny cage. It really affected her.
I don't understand why these crimes aren't taken more seriously. It reminds me of all the "no littering, fines up to $1000". Has anyone ever heard of someone getting a ticket for littering?

But you should see the kind of enforcement if someone stands up for animals. I read a book called "Operation Biteback" and the full force of the US government came down on a few kids trying to save fur animals from fur farms.

It was a precursor, and the AETA had a very chilling effect. From a fur industry standpoint not as much as some might like, as certain people still do certain things. The Blueprint came out in 2019 or something.

For the record, if interested, one is more than welcome to see who is responsible for the AETA. You'll unfortunately find a lot of democrats on that roll call. For what it's worth.

ago when that wasn't true, but it is now.
One of these days I'm going to have to get off my duff and start working earlier in the process and try to get a better batch of people in the primary system.
I do appreciate the timeline. With the AETA coming after, that's a really frightening thing. That and the Patriot act defining a lot of environmental activism as "terrorism".
On-going war against the left.

with captions like “I eat fish every day and still can’t swim like Michael Phelps”

do average Chinese people know who Michael Phelps is?

to climb walls, eating ducks let people fly?
I'd better stop. There is nothing that drags me into a near-racist fury easier than thinking about the Chinese and their long list of species they are destroying. Including the vaquita (in case you hadn't noticed my signature line).
In the other documentary done by the same group (funding from Leonardo DiCaprio foundation), I think one of the most appalling things was the blase attitude of the Chinese shop owners who were selling all the ivory trinkets. The guy organizing all the killing in Africa looked as evil as any movie villain ever, but those shop owners really infuriated me. Sad thing about the ivory is there was a group of Chinese folks at a festival here in the KC zoo around Christmas for their "Glow Wild" event and they were selling the same type of sculptures that were just as intricate, just as well crafted, but were made entirely of white jade.

But I wish every last one of those motherfuckers would shoot THEMSELVES in the head and die.