That makes me sad and angry.

Sickening isn't it 

I was about to say was it China so that I did not have to read it, but I was right, it's China. As much as we like them in the West it would seem other cultures view them differently.

Are these herbal medicines I wonder? or are they both 

By and large, the programmes and articles I have read point toward medicines. Sometimes they are killed for small amounts of body parts.