Chapter 786 Shocking

I don’t know why some people want to contrast bears with heroes?

According to Fan Wubing’s personal experience. Ten heroes may not be able to defeat a bear with bare hands. This is an objective fact, not something that heroes can change.

Black bears are sturdy, covered with black hair, with a crescent-shaped white stripe on their chests. They can walk upright, and when they stand up, they are like an iron tower, majestic and awe-inspiring. Therefore, when people describe a burly person, they often say that he has a strong back and a strong waist.

A large black bear is called a bear in ancient books, and a human bear in folk. There are many stories about human bears in the mountainous areas of northern Fujian. It is said that when human bears meet people, they are always very happy and grab people’s hands and laugh. Therefore, in the past, where human bears appeared, people often brought two bamboo tubes when going up the mountain. When they met a human bear, they put them on their wrists, and when it smiled and squinted its eyes and fell asleep, they quickly pulled their hands away.

The black bear looks ferocious, but its temperament is not fierce. At most, they would dig out bird nests, catch river fish, and catch insects. Generally, they are vegetarians, chew bamboo shoots, bite chestnuts, break corn, dig sweet potatoes, and of course, sometimes steal honey.

In fact, black bears have the highest IQ among large beasts. Some families in Russia and Northeast China like to keep black bears to guard their homes. They are absolutely loyal to their owners.

However, due to the serious damage to the natural ecology, there are very few wild black bears, so the country has listed them as protected animals. But because black bears are precious, bear meat is edible, bear skin is precious fur, bear paws are famous mountain delicacies, one is worth thousands of yuan, and bear bile is more expensive than gold, this has attracted many criminals to ignore the law and indiscriminately hunt and kill.

Fan Wubing was afraid that Shen Ying would get into trouble, so he kept protecting her and walked slowly behind her. Instead, the special police rushed in, fired a while of gunfire, and knocked down more than a dozen big wolfhounds. The poor dogs finally got such an undignified end because they followed the wrong master and helped the evil. It was a bit regrettable.

Soon the people in the house heard the noise and thought some enemy was coming to attack them, so they rushed out with sticks and shouting. However, when they ran out, they found that the scene was not right. The people who came were all special police, and they were all holding submachine guns. The big wolfhounds that they used to guard the house were already lying dead on the ground, and the remaining few were also lingering. The dog blood was all over the ground, and the whole yard was full of bloody smell. Flies were buzzing and chasing after them.

"Raise your hands, surrender your guns and we won't kill you!" The momentum of the special police was not to be underestimated, it was definitely bloody enough, especially after killing more than a dozen wolfhounds, they were even more aggressive like a tiger, sweeping through thousands of troops like a roll of cloth.

The people who rushed out had never seen such a scene before, and their legs suddenly became weak. Seven or eight people immediately fell to the ground, holding their heads with their hands and sticking their butts up, kneeling there and shaking, obviously scared.

The special police rushed up.

They were immediately handcuffed together, just like tying old hens with ropes in the vegetable market, the four of them were tied together, and they couldn't run away even if they wanted to.

The four special police rushed into the second courtyard first, cleaned the battlefield carefully, and caught two women and three men, and then gave a signal that they could go in.

There were six rows of bungalows in the back, not very high, but the place was big enough.

When the first person pushed the door, he saw a dozen rats running towards the corner of the house, and then all kinds of flying insects flew in his face.

After everyone looked at it, they felt a little miserable, even the special police who often went through life and death felt a little bit sorry.

The cages where the black bears were were about one meter high and wide, and about one and a half meters long, all rusted.

Because they were imprisoned in such a small space for many years and the house was dark all year round, the bears, who were originally wild and free, became extremely mentally ill because they could not get the various sensory signals they should have. Without exception, they were slow to react and lacked wildness. Many of them obviously had behavioral manifestations similar to human neurotic obsessive-compulsive disorder, and they kept shaking their heads monotonously and meaninglessly for a long time.

Even so, the people in the bear farm were still worried that the bears would hurt people, so they cut off or filed off the claws of most bears with files, and some bears had their teeth blunted or simply pulled out.

Because they had no teeth and no normal chewing function, the bears' food was simplified to porridge. There was only some wheat bran, husks, a little bone meal and pig offal.

"How much do you feed the bears every day?" A female staff member of the Forestry Bureau who followed asked the suspect who was being escorted by the special police indignantly.

"Each bear has about four pounds of food a day." The owner of the bear farm replied tremblingly, "The bear farm can't afford too much feed, and we're also afraid that the bears will get too full."

Fan Wubing saw a few cucumbers nearby and threw them into the cage. When the brown bear inside saw the cucumbers, he was so excited that he ran around in the cage like a puppy, which showed that he hadn't filled his stomach for a long time.

The people from the Food and Drug Administration who came with him checked the situation. Due to the current poor conditions, small cages, stuffy rooms, dirty air, lack of basic hygiene and insufficient food, many bears have become sick.

The people at the bear farm said that some bears vomited as soon as they ate, and a bear died of illness not long ago. The medical conditions for the bears in the bear farm are very limited. Although they said that they gave injections to sick bears, the medical facilities that Fan Wubing and his team saw were just an old cabinet with some bottles and syringes scattered inside.

These facilities are exposed to rats, moths, flies, mosquitoes and unknown insects of all sizes all day long. The bear bile extracted under such conditions obviously cannot meet the most basic drug hygiene standards.

"How do you extract bile from bears?" the people from the Food and Drug Administration asked.

They brought cameras and recording equipment to record the situation here for record.

Then Fan Wubing and others saw the scene of **collecting bear bile.

Extracting bile from live bears is actually a lifelong operation for bears, not for the health of the bears, but for certain needs of humans. This operation is to permanently insert a metal tube into the gallbladder of the bear, with the other end exposed outside the bear's abdomen. When extracting bile, it is connected to a long leather tube, and the bile flows into an iron tube through this leather tube.

Sometimes in order to increase the outflow of bile. The bear farm simply uses a special needle to extract bile. At this time, the bears whose bile is extracted will scream in pain, and they will keep scratching the iron tube in their abdomen, sometimes scratching their abdomen bloody.

According to the people at the bear farm, in order to make the bears honestly contribute bile, they made various vests to put on the bears.

"What kind of vest is that?" A special police officer asked with a frown.

The people at the bear farm quickly took out a vest sample for everyone to see.

The so-called bear vest is made of extremely thick and hard canvas, and iron rings are specially added at the shoulders to restrict the bear's arms. Two straps are wrapped around the back, and once the vest is installed. The straps are nailed shut with iron nails and never taken off again.

Fan Wubing weighed this thing and felt that this vest was very heavy. Some smaller bears would not be able to bear it, which shows how cruel the torture of the bears is. Even for smaller bears, it can temporarily delay this torture, and the pain is very severe. When the vest is not worn and bile is not taken, since the metal tube in the abdomen is open, once a certain amount of bile accumulates in the gallbladder, it will flow out of the body by itself.

When Fan Wubing and his team walked into the house, they saw a large area of ​​the ground under a bear was stained green by its bile.

Long-term bile overflows, which cannot help the digestive tract digest and break down fatty foods, so these bears have not been able to eat fish and meat for a long time, which is why the bear farm only gives them porridge mixed with bran and bone meal.

Shen Ying looked at it twice and couldn't stand it anymore, so she ran to the car outside the yard with the bodyguard. Fan Wubing was more tenacious and wanted to know more about the crimes of these people.

"Where did you get these bears from? How many are there in total? How much illegal profit did you make? Did you sell them to those pharmacies?" The people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau asked questions, and naturally they couldn't leave these topics.

"We bought them all from the Animal Husbandry Experiment Station of the Agricultural University. There are 67 in total, but five died." The owner of the bear farm replied, "We have a contract, which is considered a contract. We pay 300,000 yuan to the Animal Husbandry Station every year, and the rest of the profit is ours. We have a contract for three years. Several new drugstores in Beijing have our goods, but the old drugstores are unwilling to accept goods from us who are illegal households."

"I asked you how much illegal income you have, and you are going around in circles and refuse to tell me, right?!" A person next to him bluffed.

"It's really not much. Life has been getting harder and harder recently--" The owner of the bear farm replied with a wry smile.

Their bear farm has raised more than 200 bears in total, and there is no artificial breeding. The bears raised are all provided by the forestry department. Except for 16 bears provided by a forestry bureau in the northeast, the remaining more than 190 bears were sold to the bear farm by the forestry bureau of the city at a price of more than 10,000 yuan each.

According to the domestic regulations on the domestication and breeding of wild animals, for domestication and breeding or scientific research purposes. If you really need to hunt animals, you must obtain approval from the relevant forestry authorities and apply for a hunting license. The applicant can hunt on his own. The local forestry department has no obligation or power to sell the animals needed by the applicant.

In addition, the local forestry authorities only approve animals produced locally, and have no right to approve non-local animals.

There are naturally no bears in the suburbs of Beijing. The black bears or brown bears seen in the bear farm should be animals that are beyond the scope of approval of the city's forestry bureau, and should be considered illegal.

According to the bear farm breeders, the source of these bears is not limited to the northeast. Some of them come from Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, and they are indeed from the wild.

The owner of the bear farm said that life has been difficult recently, which is true. At present, due to the shrinking bear bile market, the price of bear bile powder has dropped from more than 20,000 yuan per catty to 10,000 yuan per catty. There are so many bears in the bear farm, and the daily expenses are quite large. The owner has felt that raising bears has become a burden. Because the bears have lost their value, the living standards of the bears have dropped sharply.

Fan Wubing and his team noticed that the bungalow where the bears were kept was dimly lit, without heat protection and winter heating facilities. Because the bears' feces could not be cleaned in time, the ground was filthy, the air was full of rancid smells, there were so many mosquitoes and flies that it was like a drizzle, and the corners were filled with miscellaneous items and rat droppings, making it difficult to stay.

Usually in bear farms, bile is extracted once or twice a day before the black bears eat, because the bile is thicker at this time, and an average of 30 to 160 milliliters are extracted each time. Some large bear farms can extract bile four times a day.

People from the Food and Drug Administration told Fan Wubing that Animals Asia once rescued a group of black bears. Those black bears were imprisoned in a bear farm for a long time and had bile tubes removed. They were physically and mentally damaged, with ulcerated wounds and abdominal infections. Yellow-brown pus constantly oozed from the ulcerated skin, and he did not dare to step out of the cage and touch the ground for a long time. When their abdominal cavities were opened, some of the drainage tubes were rotten in the stomach, and some were tightly adhered to the organs. After being put into the forest, they would not move a step forward except shaking their heads. Because they had been locked in the iron cage for too long, they had forgotten how to walk. They just looked up to the sky with stupid eyes, as if they still felt that they were still in the iron cage. .

After everyone left the room, Fan Wubing walked to Shen Ying. The little girl was obviously more stimulated. She didn't expect this scene to be so disgusting and outrageous. It was simply a torture chamber, a hell for animals. As she saw, in fact, these little bears were unable to move, stand, or turn around at all. They could only extend their paws out of the cage to get food. The purpose of keeping them in this way was to prevent them from acting out because they could not bear the torture. An act of self-inflicted violence.

Fan Wubing patted Shen Ying on the shoulder, asked her to lean into his arms, and then said with some emotion, "The people from the Food and Drug Administration just told me that the approved price of bear bile is two yuan per milliliter. But it's not big. Most of the bear bile is purchased by wineries and made into bear bile wine, which is sold at dozens of times the price. In fact, bear bile is not a panacea, and its medicinal value has been exaggerated by so-called experts. , causing consumers to use a large amount of bear bile products. Bear bile can only play a very common role in clearing away heat and detoxifying the human body, which can be replaced by many Chinese herbal medicines. What is shocking is that some companies are also abusing bear bile. Bear bile is used in some non-essential, non-traditional Chinese medicine products, such as a certain bamboo salt toothpaste, various brands of bear bile wine, and even in shampoos and drinks, such as Procter & Gamble’s washing water.”

"Those little bears are so pitiful -" Shen Ying said to Fan Wubing with moist eyes.

"In order to satisfy their own needs and immediate monetary interests, selfish humans use cruel methods to torture and abuse animals that have the same feelings and thoughts as humans, regardless of the feelings of animals. Are there any commonalities between humans? Faced with this, People who love animals will feel the same when they hurt animals, but people who don't love animals will not feel it at all. What's more, they will feel inexplicable pleasure. The difference between people is really big, and it can't be said to be true. Innate differences, or nurture," Fan Wubing said helplessly, "The history of human development continues from barbarism to civilization, when we treat people like us in an extremely uncivilized and barbaric way. When there are animals that have the same feelings of pain, anger, sadness, and even similar intelligence and emotions, civilization is still a very distant goal.”

"I really want to help these animals -" Shen Ying raised her head and said to Fan Wubing.

"You should help the children in the impoverished mountainous areas first. They may be more pitiful than the little bears." Fan Wubing hugged Shen Ying and said to her.