Beruang empedu: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Beruang empedu''' adalah [[Ursidae|beruang]] yang dipelihara di penangkaran untuk diambil [[empedu]]nya, yang merupakan cairan pencernaan yang dihasilkan oleh [[hati]] dan disimpan di [[kantung empedu]]. Empedu beruang diambil untuk digunakan dalam industri obat tradisional [[Tiongkok]].<ref name="Feng">{{cite journal|author=Feng, Y., Siu, K., Wang, N., Ng, K.M., Tsao, S.W., Nagamatsu, T. and Tong, Y.|year=2009|title=Bear bile: dilemma of traditional medicinal use and animal protection|journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine|volume=5|issue=1|pages=2}}</ref> Diperkirakan terdapat 12.000 ekor beruang yang diternak untuk diambil empedunya<ref name="Hance">{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/apr/09/bear-bile-china-synthetic-alternative|year=2015|title=Is the end of 'house of horror' bear bile factories in sight?|author=Hance, J.|publisher=The Guardian}}</ref> di [[Tiongkok]], [[Korea Selatan]], [[Laos]], [[Vietnam]], dan [[Myanmar]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Gong, J. and Harris, R. B.|year=2006|chapter=The status of bears in China|pages=96–101|publisher=Japan Bear Network (compiler),Ibaraki, Japan|title=Understanding Asian Bears to Secure Their Future}}</ref><ref name=MacGregor>{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/laos/7950161/Inside-a-bear-bile-farm-in-Laos.html | location=London |work=The Telegraph | first=F. | last=MacGregor | title=Inside a bear bile farm in Laos | year=2010}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times">{{cite web|author=Jacobs, A. |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/world/asia/chinese-bear-bile-farming-draws-charges-of-cruelty.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0 |title=Folk remedy extracted from captive bears stirs furor in China |publisher=The New York Times |year=2013|accessdate=October 8, 2013}}</ref><ref name=Gwang-lip2009>{{cite web |author=Gwang-lip, M. |url= http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2911817 |title=Vietnamese urge Koreans not to travel for bear bile |work=Korea Jongang Daily | year=2009}}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6742671.stm |title=BBC Test kit targets cruel bear trade | year=2007 | accessdate=2010-01-01 |archiveurl = httphttps://www.webcitation.org/5uKg09Jgj?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6742671.stm |archivedate = 2010-11-18 |deadurl=no |work=BBC News |first=R. |last=Black }}</ref>

Walaupun nilai perdagangan produk beruang diperkirakan dapat mencapai $2&nbsp;miliar, tidak ada bukti bahwa empedu beruang memiliki khasiat medis.<ref name="Guinness">{{cite web|url=http://www.cagesofshame.com/page2.html|title=Cages of shame|year=2013|publisher=Guinness Entertainment Pty Ltd|accessdate=October 8, 2013|archive-date=2019-05-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524171627/http://www.cagesofshame.com/page2.html|dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref name="SBM">{{cite web | url=https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/asian-bear-bile-remedies-barbarism-or-medicine/ | title=Asian Bear Bile Remedies: Traditional Medicine or Barbarism? | work=[[Science Based medicine]] | date=March 24, 2011 | accessdate=February 10, 2016 | author=Kavoussi, Ben}}</ref> Praktik peternakan beruang untuk diambil empedunya telah dikutuk oleh berbagai pihak, termasuk oleh dokter-dokter di Tiongkok.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8727071/Chinese-doctors-to-call-for-cruel-bear-farms-to-be-closed.html | title=Chinese doctors to call for ‘cruel’ bear farms to be closed | work=[[Daily Telegraph]] | date=Aug 28, 2011 | accessdate=February 10, 2016}}</ref>

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