In reply to Moley:
It would never happen though. Chinese traditional herbal medicine can be quite good. Plants make many useful molecules which the modern pharma industry uses in a purified form.
Any product from an animal though is digested into amino-acids. So bear bile, rhino horn, shark fin, once you've eaten it it ends up being the same as a chicken nugget.
They don't just kill the bears to get the bile. They put them in a cage so small it can't move at all, they cut it open and stick a tube into the gall bladder so the bile is harvested continually. There's only so much devil's advocate, whataboutism and cultural relativism you can do before you have to admit that something is aweful.