Fluids grown in labs to replace treatments for critical diseases while ensuring the well-being of animals and plants? #Save_Bears

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I was just checking the internet about Tiger Balm and its applications. I thought it contained animal products because of its magical healing abilities. However, they claim there are no animal products in Tiger Balm, which drew my attention to some past recalls involving animal fluids and enzymes.

I learned from the internet that bile is used in some traditional cures. We need to stop this; bears are a threatened species. What is in the therapy that requires bear bile? Why? If it can save lives from threatening diseases, then we must find a way to produce it in a lab without harming or killing the bears. Just doing it abiding by international laws that bears are treated well. What kind of bears they use is another question; I am not going to delve further into it.

Even insulin is made in labs now here-

Below is from an internet search:

What are the traditional medicines of China, along with some secrets to a long and healthy life? However, we don’t want various categories of bears to become extinct, so pass your secrets to a professor to create bile and other healing enzymes in labs without hurting bears.

Are the uses of bile sufficient to warrant considering its production in laboratories? What can it cure? Traditional Chinese medicine is over a thousand years old.

— We need treatments, but not at the cost of animal life or the well-being of plants and wildlife.

— Now that meat is grown in labs, it can truly solve many problems, such as providing meals for everyone and even meals on Mars in the future, if the colonization of Mars is successful. However, I wouldn’t like to eat lab-grown meat at this time, as it’s still in the experimental stage. I think so, but you may feel differently.

— I don’t know what the process of creating fluids and enzymes in labs entails, nor whether they can truly cure humans and animals.

— All this protects animals from the such processes. Animals are alive, and they have the right to a good life; we should not confine them to cages for healing.

— The first artificial enzymes in the world have been developed using synthetic biology. [2]

— There is enzyme replacement therapy, [3]

— Enzyme Therapy: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives [4]

— These techniques should be registered [6]

— Bile bear is mentioned on Wikipedia as being used in some ancient healing systems. I don’t know if it is still practiced, what its uses are, or if it is ethical.

In the screenshot above, I deleted the image on the right; it depicted a bear in such terrible condition that I couldn’t bear to look at it. Should we not feel what speechless animals feel? A bear is dangerous and strong, but even lions can be threatening in their natural habitat; therefore, “Save Lions” should also imply “Save Bears,” as well as “Save Wildlife.” Who hasn’t seen Baloo the bear in The Jungle Book? Was he not kind to Mowgli? (Some correlation; these are fictitious characters, as Mowgli is from a fiction book.)

Therefore, we need to select animals, and if there is an ancient therapy, why not cultivate them in the lab while extracting fluid in a more humane manner — without compromising their lives?

— Bile from bears contains ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA). Can we produce this chemical in a lab to save bears while also helping us understand nature and its implications for using bear bile? If it can be synthesized in a lab, is it ethical to kill bears? I am not the one who should answer this. If you’d like, I can do more research and provide some solutions.

Nature must have intended for us to find alternatives in labs or altogether different solutions.

— So, instead of killing countless bears and other animals, why not reproduce chemicals/living enzymes/tissue in a lab? You should reach out to a professor for guidance on creating artificial alternatives to save animals from such practices.

— Some bears are on the threatened list [7]