Animals Asia Clothing (helping to rescue moon bears)

If you want to make a simple difference to help moon bears used for the bile trade in Asia, buy a few organic cotton staples from the clothing shop at Animals Asia. This amazing charity (founded by a British woman) is helping not to just rescue bears stuck in cages for decades, but also to educate and help stop this awful trade for so-called ‘traditional medicine’.

Purchase of these organic staples (tees, sweatshirts and jogging bottoms) helps to fund their amazing work. All items are made from organic cotton, printed-on-demand here in England, and sent to you in zero waste plastic-free packaging. You can also send back items at end-of-life for recycling.

How to stop the bear bile trade

The best way is to never buy anything linked to ‘traditional medicine’ unless you get written guarantee that no animal parts (bile and also tiger bone and rhino horn ‘ are not used. Although this is illegal in England, not all companies are ethical.

Most of these so-called medicines are based on myth anyway. One expert says that using rhino horn could actually fuel cancer, not cure it.

Synthetic UDCA (ursodiol) is now being used in medicine to dissolve gallstones and treat chronic liver disease, the main substitute for bear bile, and researchers have also developed a synthetic alternative, without the use of any animal tissue.