A stated preference investigation into the chinese demand for farmed vs. Wild bear bile

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Dutton, Adam J ^a   Hepburn, Cameron ^b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BEAR; CHINESE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MARKETING; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; INCOME; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

BILE ACID;

ANIMALS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; INCOME; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PATIENT PREFERENCE; URSIDAE;

EID: 79960589955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021243     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Nowell K, (2000) Far from a Cure: the Tiger Trade Revisited Cambridge Traffic.
2. Hutchings JA, (2000) Collapse and recovery of marine fishes. Nature 406: 882-885.
3. Hutton J, Webb G, (2003) Crocodiles: legal trade snaps back. In: Oldfield S, editors. The trade in wildlife: Regulation for conservation London, UK Earthscan.
4. Group ICS (2006) CSG Steering Committee Meeting. Montelimar.
5. Dutton A, Hepburn C, Macdonald DW, (in press) Finding the Least Leaky Bucket: Farming Wildlife and Wildlife Trade Regulation. In: Macdonald DW, Willis K, editors. Key Topics in Conservation 2 Chichester Wiley Blackwell.
6. Huang J, Asian Perspectives on the therapeutic value of bear bile and alternatives; 1994; Washington D.C., USA.
7. Bensky D, Clavey S, Stoger E, (2004) Materia Medica: Chinese Herbal Medicine Eastland Press.
8. Lee Y, The use of bear bile as medicine versus tonic. In: Williamson DF, Phipps MJ, editors. 1999; National Insititute of Environmental Research, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
9. Anonymous, (2005) Finding herbal Alternatives to bear bile London WSPA.
10. Mills JA, Asian dedication to the use of bear bile as medicine. In: Rose DA, Gask AL, editors. 1994; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA.
11. Shoda M, (1927) Über die ursodesoxycholsäure aus bärengallen und ihre physiologische wirkung. J Biochem 7: 505-510.
12. Kanazawa T, Shimazake A, Sato T, Hoshino T, (1954) Synthesis of ursodeoxycholic acid and its conjugated bile acid. Proc Jpn Acad 30: 391-394.
13. Roda E, Azzaroli F, Nigro G, Piazza F, Jaboli F, et al. (2002) Improved liver tests and greater biliary enrichment with high dose ursodeoxycholic acid in early stage primary biliary cirrhosis. Digestive and Liver Disease 34: 523-527.
14. Ikegami T, Matsuzaki Y, Shoda J, Kano M, Hirabayashi N, et al. (1998) The chemopreventive role of ursodeoxycholic acid in azoxymethane-treated rats: suppressive effects on enhanced group II phospholipase A2 expression in colonic tissue. Cancer Letters 134: 129-139.
15. Barclay L, (2003) Ursodeoxycholic Acid Prevents Gallstones After Gastric Restrictive Procedures? Ann Surg 238: 697-702.
16. Hagey LR, Crombie DL, Espinosa E, Carey MC, Igimi H, et al. (1993) Ursodeoxycholic acid in the Ursidae. Biliary bile acids of bears, pandas and related carnivores. Journal of Lipid Research 34: 1911-1917.
17. Servheen C, (1994) The Impacts of the bear trade on global bear populations. Proc of the International Symposium on the Trade of Bear Parts for Medicinal Use. Washington, USA.
18. Peppin L, McEwing R, Carvalho GR, Ogden R, (2008) A DNA-Based Approach for the Forensic Identification of Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) in a Traditional Asian Medicine*. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53: 1358-1362.
19. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
20. Garshelis DL, Steinmetz R, (2007) Ursus thibetanus, Asiatic Black Bear IUCN.
21. WSPA (2002) The bear bile business Phillips T, Wilson P, eds. London WSPA.
22. WSPA (2010) Inside Bear Farms. London.
23. Mainka SA, Mills J, (1995) Wildlife and Traditional Chinese Medicine: Supply and Demand for Wildlife Species. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 26: 193-200.
24. Raloff J, (2005) A Galling Business. Science News 168: 250-252.
25. Loeffler IK, Robinson J, Cochrane G, (2009) Compromised health and welfare of bears farmed for bile in China. Animal Welfare 18: 225-235.
26. Servheen C, Herrero H, Peyton B, (1999) Bears: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan Gland, Switzerland IUCN.
27. Bateman IJ, Carson RT, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, et al. (2002) Economic valuation with stated preference techniques: A manual: Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
28. Press CS, (2007) China Statistical Yearbook: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies.
29. Kish L, (1949) A Procedure for Objective Respondent Selection within the Household. Journal of the American Statistical Association 44: 380-387.
30. Gratwicke B, Mills J, Dutton A, Gabriel G, Long B, et al. (2008) Attitudes Toward Consumption and Conservation of Tigers in China. PLoS ONE 3: e2544.
31. Blamey RK, Bennett JW, Louviere JJ, Morrison MD, Rolfe J, (2000) A test of policy labels in environmental choice modelling studies. Ecological Economics 32: 269-286.
32. De Bekker-Grob EW, Hol L, Donkers B, Van Dam L, Habbema JDF, et al. (2010) Labeled versus Unlabeled Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: An Application to Colorectal Cancer Screening. Value in Health 13: 315-323.
33. Tversky A, Kahneman D, (1974) Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Science 185: 1124-1131.
34. eTranslate, (2006) Shop Survey in China London WSPA.
35. Bekoff M, (2009) Bear Tapping: a bile business. New Scientist London Reed Business Information.
36. AHAN Bear bile farm visit.
37. Mills JS, C., pp. 161-167 The Asian trade in bears and bear parts: Impacts and conservation recomendations; 1994; Missoula, Montana, USA.
38. Wyler LS, Sheikh PA, (2009) International illegal wildlife trade: Threats and US policy Washington, D.C., USA Congressional Research Service.
39. Neale D, (2010).
40. Howitt P, (1987) Money Illusion. pp. 518-519 The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. 3 ed: Macmillan.
41. Tanaka MM, Kendal JR, Laland KN, (2009) From Traditional Medicine to Witchcraft: Why Medical Treatments Are Not Always Efficacious. PLoS ONE 4.
42. Mishan EJ, (1971) Evaluation of Life and Limb: A Theoretical Approach. The Journal of Political Economy 79: 687-705.