Chapter 44: The Extraction of Bile, a Live Bear
The next day at work, Jin Ge, Xiaoxiao, and Dandan were all there, and the friends introduced by Hu Xiaoyu came to the company.
When someone saw Hu Yiming, he said: "Hello, you are Mr. Hu, right? ”
Hu Yiming smiled faintly: "It's just hype up a few Internet celebrities." ”
The person who came did not continue to be polite, and handed several documents to Hu Yiming, Jin Ge, Xiaoxiao and Dandan.
Hu Yiming took it and saw that it was a printed manuscript on the Internet.
The title is: The horrific live bear takes the gall.
Description: The live black bear bile industry has been in China for 30 years, and it is a legal but hardly humane business. For decades, thousands of black bears have been captured alive from the woods by hunters familiar with their habits, screaming and beginning their tragic fate – they are anesthetized and catheterized into their gallbladders and drawn out of their bodies for ready bile extraction, a process that can last up to 20 years.
The poor bear, who has no freedom to turn around alive, has to be pumped bile every day, and the moon bear, whose body cannot produce bile, is either left aside to starve, or slaughtered for gall and severed palms.
The method of extracting bile from live bears is to permanently insert a metal tube into the bear's gallbladder and the other end is exposed outside the bear's abdomen, because the wound is exposed and never heals, so it is often infected. This is the metal tube that is permanently inserted into the bear's gallbladder to extract bile.
The poor black bears were deprived of even the opportunity to commit suicide! In order to prevent the black bears from committing suicide, the bears were locked in small iron cages, so small that they could not turn around. Inactivity. When the bile is extracted, the black bear can only shake its head desperately except for howling miserably.
Can't stand up straight, can't turn around, only pain. There are no woods, no sunlight, only darkness. There is no freedom, no end, only suffering.
Since childhood, they have been confined to a small space for several years, with torture instruments stuck in their chests and stomachs, and they have been pumped twice a day! Every day they have been brutally pumped out of bile, which can be described as "life is worse than death"!
In order to increase the outflow of bile, the bear farm will use a special needle into the gallbladder to extract bile, and at this time, the bear who has been extracted from the bile will howl in pain, scratching his abdomen into a bloody blur. Some bears are insane because they can't bear the pain of gall pumping, and some bears will commit suicide and pull out their liver and intestines!
Usually in bear farms, bile is taken once or twice a day before the bears eat, because the bulk of the bile is higher at this time. An average of 30 to 160 ml is drawn each time. Some large bear farms say they can take bile four times a day.
The Animal Foundation once rescued a group of black bears, which were physically and mentally damaged due to long-term captivity in the bear farm, wounds festering, abdominal infection, and yellow-brown pus oozing from the festering skin, and they did not dare to come out of the cage to touch the earth for a long time. When their abdominal cavity was opened, some of the drainage tubes were rotten in the stomach, and some were tightly attached to the organs. After entering the forest, they will not move a step forward except for shaking their heads desperately, because they have been locked in the cage for too long, and they may have forgotten how to walk. It's just that the demented eyes are looking at the sky, as if they still feel like they are still in the iron cage.
The black bear could not endure such torture, and committed suicide by disemboweling the internal organs of his wounds and pulling out his own intestines. In order to prevent such behavior from happening, people invented iron vests. For bears, this is a real hell on earth!
It's a torture chamber, a hell of animals. As you can see, in fact they are not able to move at all, they cannot stand, they cannot turn around, they can only stick their paws out of the cage to feed. The purpose of this lock-up is to prevent the moon bear, who can't stand the torture, from committing self-mutilation!
In addition to these contents, there are also some pictures of bears in iron cages, bloodstained. It looks terrible.
Before Hu Yiming finished reading it, Xiaoxiao on the side exclaimed: "It's too cruel, it's not human to do these things." ”
"I'm not an animal protectionist, but I really can't stand this kind of thing," Dandan said. ”
Jin Ge said: "Slaughtering pigs and sheep is also a knife to finish, this kind of torture of life is too bloody." ”
Hu Yiming said: "Indeed, companies that make this kind of money are enough to fuck up. ”
At this time, Hu Yiming remembered and asked the visitor: "Who are you?
The person who came came sneered and said, "I'm the fuck you said, not a human enterprise, the person in charge of publicity." ”
Several people were slightly embarrassed, Hu Yiming frowned, and said, "Do you want to?"
The visitor replied: "Our company, called Guizhengtang, integrates the research and development, production and sales of black bear breeding and bear bile series products. My surname is Wang, just call me Manager Wang. Our company was overwhelmed by this news this time, and wanted to ask Mr. Hu for help. ”
Hu Yiming groaned and didn't speak, Xiaoxiao hurriedly said: "Is it true that this live bear takes guts?"
Manager Wang: "It's really true. ”
Xiaoxiao said coldly: "Brother Hu, I don't know what you think, I don't think we can make this kind of money in Mengqianxun." ”
Hu Yiming also smiled and said, "You are a friend of Manager Hu, but I may indeed lack the ability to solve your matter." ”
Manager Wang was anxious and said: "Although it is true that live bears take gall, this report is three parts true and seven points false." Mr. Hu, you are doing hype, you should know that all hype is three points true and seven points false, all false is not terrible, three points are true, everyone believes it, but this is not the whole truth. ”
Hu Yiming glanced at Xiaoxiao, who was still sulking. Hu Yiming said: "In this case, you tell me first, what is the truth of the matter, and then we will see if we can help you." ”
Manager Wang opened the conversation.
Live bears have been collecting bile for decades. However, these reports have not been many in the early years, and now, when our Guizheng Church is about to go public, it has exploded in a concentrated manner. There is also an organization like the Animal Foundation.
Hu Yiming replied: "When things go wrong, there must be demons, and the choice of this timing is a bit like a hype." ”
Manager Wang said:
The main components of bear bile powder are ursodeoxycholic acid, tauroursodeoxycholic acid, taurochenodeoxycholic acid, chenodeoxycholic acid, taurine, taurodeoxycholic acid, amino acids, cholesterol, proteins, peptides, fatty acids and trace elements and other substances, and also contains elements that have not been fully discovered in the medical field, while synthetic preparations have only a single component. Scientific research has confirmed that the tauroursodeoxycholic acid in bear bile powder cannot be replaced by any other animal and plant components; The medicinal properties of bear bile powder rely on diversity and synergy, not on the preparation of one ingredient or the simple substitution of herbs with several ingredients.
Jin Ge interjected: "What you want to say is that it is necessary to take bear bile, because it can make medicine? ”
Manager Wang smiled lightly and said, "However, the animal foundation that jumped out this time, the financier behind it, is sponsored by our competitor, a certain Western medicine!"