Chapter 45: The Dispute between China and the West

Hu Yiming thought thoughtfully: "You mean, on the eve of your company's preparation for listing, a certain western medicine company made a fuss about taking bile from live bears to fund the Animal Foundation and obstruct your listing?"

Manager Wang sighed: "Yes, once we go public, we can expand the scale and become bigger and stronger." Our bear bile Chinese medicine products are more than twice as expensive as our Western medicines with the same efficacy. So, this time it was a concentrated attack. Now, not only is there no hope of going public, but our products are going to be boycotted. ”

Manager Wang also said: "Traditional Chinese medicine is broad and profound, it is a national treasure, and many raw materials of traditional Chinese medicine come from wild animals and plants, which is not only an attack on our company, but also our culture." ”

Hu Yiming thought for a while and said: "If this is true, your company is not completely damned." ”

Xiaoxiao still said angrily: "Even so, you guys are too cruel to take guts, I can't sleep at night after looking at those pictures." ”

Manager Wang smiled bitterly and said: "This is the shamelessness of the Animal Foundation, iron cages, iron vests, these are all technologies more than ten years ago." The photos they put are also photos from decades ago. At present, we use the world's most advanced tubeless drainage technology. ”

Hu Yiming sighed and said, "I understand." What you said is true, and it is true that live bears take their gall. Seven points of leave, is the picture, the content, are all used historical content. Those three points are really interesting, and you don't know where to start if you want to defend these seven points, that's why you came to me, right?"

Manager Wang nodded again and again and said, "Yes, Mr. Hu, that's it." We feel that the opponent's method also belongs to the category of hype. ”

Hu Yiming thought to himself, maybe he came to this world for a while, and finally there are still some people who have a heart and learn the way of hype.

Xiaoxiao still couldn't help it, and said again: "Even if it is a tubeless drainage, there must still be some pain, right?

Manager Wang said: "We have been researching things to replace bear bile over the years, but bear bile still cannot be completely replaced. The bear's suffering has now been minimized. ”

Manager Wang also said: "Westerners love foie gras, and the farmer will put a 20~30 cm iron pipe into the throat of the goose to feed. In 8 days, a fatty liver that is 6-10 times larger than normal foie gras can be raised. Only when the morbidly obese foie gras, carefully and undamaged, is taken out and cooked without damage, can the best foie gras delicacy in France be produced in the true sense of the word. But why didn't the Animal Foundation pay attention to the suffering of geese? ”

Xiaoxiao stopped talking.

Manager Wang opened the leather bag he brought, took out ten bundles of 100 yuan bills, and said: "Mr. Hu, this is 100,000 yuan in cash, please be sure to help, this is just an advance, as long as this matter is resolved, Mr. Hu will go back to the company to fight for it." ”

Hu Yiming smiled faintly and said, "Manager Wang, it seems that you have inquired before you came, I am a person who loves money." ”

Manager Wang smiled.

Hu Yiming pushed the cash back to Manager Wang, saying, "I don't want to earn this money, and neither do my brothers and sisters." That's it, you're a friend of Hu Xiaoyu, I'm just chatting with you today, come up with some ideas, I don't take the money, I don't care about success or failure, what's the matter?"

"Right and wrong, it's hard to determine, so I should support Chinese medicine. ”

Seeing this, Manager Wang knew that he couldn't fight for more, so he said, "Please ask Mr. Hu for advice." ”

Hu Yiming slowly analyzed: At present, there are four major problems:

One is whether the black bear is in pain during the process of extracting bile from the live bear, and whether it has any effect on the black bear. In response to this question, I would like to suggest that you open up your bear farms for journalists and members of the public to visit, and show that you do not have any abuse of bears, and that there are few diseases and complications. If your technology is really advanced, you are not afraid to show it, so that rumors and fake pictures can be self-defeating.

The second is whether there is a substitute for bear bile. You are major, and you should invite some experts and scholars to write articles to demonstrate this matter.

The third is whether the live bear bile is not protected by traditional Chinese medicine. In this case, from the perspective of promoting the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, you should find some scholars to demonstrate.

At this point, Hu Yiming glanced at Manager Wang and said: "The above three methods are all defense, and most people don't actually care. However, some people of insight may pay attention to these contents, hoping to give you some points. ”

The fourth question is the real core one: the protection of animals, or the primacy of human beings.

Some people believe that live bears have an obligation to serve humans, while others believe that humans have an obligation to treat nature and life with love and reverence, and not to trample on nature and animals at will.

The black bears used for bile are not wild, but raised, which is not fundamentally different from raising chickens, ducks, geese and dogs. If the indiscriminate killing of wild animals will affect the ecological balance, then the raised black bears should not affect it, because raising chickens does not affect the ecological balance of pheasants, raising ducks does not affect the ecological balance of wild ducks, raising dogs does not affect the ecological balance of wild wolves, raising pigs does not affect the ecological balance of wild boars, then raising bears does not affect the ecological balance of wild black bears. So why can we kill chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs for their meat, but not for bears and their gall.

From an anthropocentric point of view, the problem of bile extraction from live bears. Anthropocentrism emphasizes people-oriented, human interests, and advocates that human interests should be taken as a value yardstick in human dealing with their own and external ecological environment. Strong anthropocentrism emphasizes that people can recklessly destroy anything in order to satisfy their own needs. Then the technique of extracting bile from live bears should be fully approved of by strong anthropocentrists.

A non-anthropocentric view of the problem of live bear bile extraction. Non-anthropocentrism believes that human beings should transcend science and technology and establish an ethical system with natural ecology as the scale. They believe that animals also have inalienable rights, that humans and animals are equal, that humans cannot obtain benefits through cruelty and slaughter of animals, and that humans need to respect them morally, which is what a moral person should have, and regard plants, animals and humans as the same subjects of life, and that all life in nature has its own place in life, and that they all have value.

Speaking of this, Hu Yiming said: "You were attacked this time, and the core controversy lies in this. If you talk about how to crack it, I can only say that it can't be cracked. All you can do is focus on promoting human primacy and try not to stir up emotions among animal protectors. ”

"That's it, please go back. ”

Manager Wang saw Hu Yiming's resolute attitude and knew that it was useless to say more, so he repeatedly expressed his gratitude and left.

After Manager Wang left, Xiaoxiao said to Hu Yiming: "Brother Hu, I worship you more and more. You can directly refuse in the face of 100,000 cash. ”

Dandan said with a smile: "Brother Hu is amazing, he not only gave Hu Xiaoyu face, but also rejected this hot thing, and also supported a handful of traditional Chinese medicine." ”

Jin Ge said: "I just feel that Brother Hu is cultured, and he doesn't just fry beautiful women." ”

Hu Yiming smiled faintly: "In the future, things like this should not be mixed up." How good it is to hype up beauties, such complicated things, troublesome. ”