Nearly 20 years after bear bile farming was banned in Vietnam, hundreds are still waiting to be rehomed

It takes four people to roll Sarah over for her X-ray, but she’s blissfully unaware of the effort that’s going into her annual check-up. A team of vets and nurses rushes around her, taking her blood pressure, checking her teeth, feeling her organs and testing her joints for arthritis. Like many bears rescued from bile farms around Vietnam, she has a raft of medical conditions. “We call them our broken bears because physically and psychologically, they’re done, because they’ve seen decades of abuse and exploitation,” Jill Robinson from Animals Asia told 7.30. “Many of them have mobility problems from being…