49 days ago by George Deftereos

This week’s digest *Korean seafood *Sino-Chinese relations *South Korean defects to North *Korean bear farms in Vietnam *”The Chineses are COMING!!!” *Languages other than English on the internet *Me making tteok So I lied about when this would go up. On Tuesday night my department went out for 회 (u ...

George in Korea - joji1909.wordpress.com · 1 reference

179 days ago by admin

Oh dear. The animal huggers (is that the right term?) are all up in arms again because Barack Obama killed a fly that was pestering him during a TV interview. Boo freaking hoo. PETA went to all the trouble of mailing Obama a “ Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher” humane fly catching trap and released a pu ...

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197 days ago by Sally Kneidel, PhD

Black bear. Photo courtesy of " EcoToursVictoria.com" For years, I was under the impression that the countries supplying and consuming the most wildlife are somewhere else on the globe. I thought Americans were too well-read, too aware to play a huge part in the wildlife trade. I worried about Afric ...

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248 days ago by allan

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By most estimations, most folks wouldn’t risk going to jail for this. But Seongja Hyun, a Korean national living in Los Angeles, isn’t like most folks. She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on federal charges of importing nearly a kilogram of bear bile har ...

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257 days ago by Kimberly

Have you ever heard about the plight of the sun bear, in particular, but some other species of bear as well? They are put in a cage where they cannot move, their bile is continually drained from their stomachs through a permanent wound for their entire lives. Often, each paw is harvested, while they ...

Exotic Animal Lover - exoticanimallover.com · 11 references