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English - October 17, 2023 20:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
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Amid growing concerns about the suffering that extraction causes the animals, the government has supported research into synthetic substitutes, but regulations are hampering the registration of alternatives to what some have dubbed ‘medicinal gold.’

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Narrated by Yingyun Zhang.

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