Black bears are naturally free-spirited animals. In the wild environment, there is only one bear per square kilometer. In the bear farm, they are kept in cages that cannot stand upright. Various squeeze cages make their lives worse than death, and some have been locked up for twenty years. Many black bears bite their own arms and slam their heads against iron cages to harm themselves. Some black bears' foreheads and faces were bloody and bloody due to the impact, and they had no hair left. "Sometimes it really feels like a mystery. It took us a lot of effort to drag the black bear out of the small cage. I really don't know how they stuffed the live bear in at that time." Wu Guojian, a member of the rescue team, said.
A black bear named Dachshund arrived with ulcers all over his face and paws. It turns out that if the bear's finger claws are not sharpened in the wild, they will grow into a 360-degree spiral shape, and the sharp bear nails will dig deeply into the bear's claws, causing blood to drip all day long. A year later Dachshund became the tree-climbing champion among his companions.
In these bear farms, there is no medical equipment, and all bears will suffer from bile until they die.
The office and dormitory of Xie Luobinchen's rescue center is a row of thatched buildings. Next to her office is a bear house of the same style, where a female bear named FANZ lives. She is only as big as a black pig and cannot be compared with similar animals that are over two meters tall. It turns out that this bear has been kept in a small cage since she was a child, and even people can only shrink in. Over the past 22 years, she has become a dwarf bear with a large body and a small body. The owner chopped off all the first knuckles of her four claws. She was unable to climb trees, hold things, and suffered from heart and lung problems. Robinson took pity on her the most, letting her bachelor party stay close to her dormitory. Now she enjoys a free life, and people call her "The Laughing Bear."
What made the foundation employees widen their angry eyes was another bear. This bear had a huge tumor on its abdomen from years of bile harvesting, but the owner still did not let it go. The metal tube passes through the tumor bulging in the abdomen and goes directly to the gallbladder.
Wang Shanhai, the leader of the breeding team, is a former forest farm worker. In the past, he had never heard of black bears taking bile. The first time he just felt strange why there was a tube in his stomach. Now his favorite is a brown bear named Susai. This is a big bear that he spent two days and three nights driving from Sichuan to Tianjin to rescue. When she met Su Sai, she was wearing an iron vest made of steel bars to prevent her from scratching the wound on her abdomen. Opening the front of the iron vest is a small iron door. A plastic tube leads directly to her gallbladder, and a switch is installed to draw bile at any time like tap water. Su Sai has been carrying this 30-pound iron vest for more than ten years. "If I could, I would guard them here for the rest of my life. 90% of us Chinese people don't know their pitiful stories. I will tell the people I meet over and over again: We treat animals as livestock, and Ms. Luo and others treat animals as livestock." "Life."
This primitive and cruel bile extraction method (iron vest, plastic tube to extract bile) has even been banned by the Chinese government, but it is still widely used in bear factories in the Northeast. "There is a kind of severe pain during bile extraction. The screaming bear is really unbearable." Hu Zhanfen, a reporter from Xinmin Weekly who witnessed the bile extraction, said about this scene. He was so angry that his whole body was shaking, and the glass on the table shook. ring. "Every bear that can be saved is a miracle." The beautiful Scottish veterinary director Guo Huiling told me.
If the moon bear is compared to a human being, then it is a "face-conscious" person. In the wild environment, the moon bear never shows weakness. Even if it is very sick, it will not moan and will not give its opponent a chance to attack. As a result, black bears found to be sick are often already dying.
When the abdominal cavity is opened, it is often horrific: "full of cysts, foul-smelling abdominal fluid, and various organs become diseased due to infection. Half of a metal tube is sewn inside the bear's gallbladder, deep into the gallbladder. Some of it is due to age. The growth has even penetrated the gallbladder. It is so severe that it cannot be treated and can only be euthanized.
In the International Convention for the Conservation of Endangered Flora and Fauna, the moon bear is designated as a first-class protected animal in China because of its huge size. The moon bear is classified as a second-level protected animal, and bile extraction is legal in China. The Ministry of Forestry now stipulates that in order to "treat bears more humanely", piped drainage is banned and so-called uncamped drainage must be used. For drainage, metal tubes are not used, but intestine casings are used to open a fleshy tube in the bear's abdomen that leads directly to the gallbladder.
Uncontrolled drainage is considered "more humane". This Chinese-style "humanity" is considered by some experts to be self-deception.
“Wrong, tubeless drainage is because the opening is on the surface of the abdominal cavity, making it easier for bacteria to enter and cause peritonitis.” Guo Huilin told reporters, “What’s even more frightening is that many venue owners use fake tubeless drainage. For drainage, a transparent plastic tube is sewn into the bear's body. In order to fix the plastic tube, a metal clip is sewn to the abdominal muscles. Except for the gallbladder, all the surrounding muscles are rotten. During the operation, we have to dig out the bear's abdomen. The size of a bowl, deep into the flesh and blood of the internal organs. But the Chinese authorities could only discover this on the operating table. "After the Ministry of Forestry issued this regulation, the injuries and illnesses of the bears rescued by the Black Bear Rescue Center worsened. Wu Guojian, the leader of the breeding team, was originally an ordinary carpenter, but now he loves his job. "I want to point out that our relevant departments said that the purpose of building a bear breeding factory is to better protect wild black bears, but 10% of the black bears sent to us are missing arms. Think about it why? It is not profit that drives these The owner of the farm caught a new bear in the wild and broke the bear's arm."
"No one died because of not using bear bile. Bear bile is believed to reduce fire and increase brightness. Deoxycholic acid can now be completely replaced by herbal medicine and artificial synthesis. The only way to eliminate the pain of moon bears is to completely ban the practice of bile," said Xie Luobinchen.
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"Bile extraction from live bears" pharmaceuticals has been around since the 1980s. In bear farms everywhere, the entire purpose of black bears' lives is to collect bile. They all have a hole in their bodies that cannot heal over the years, and some have rusty metal or glass tubes inserted into them, from which clear bile flows.
From the time they were born, most of them were imprisoned in iron cages that were 1.5 meters long and 0.5 meters high, growing day by day until the iron bars stopped them from growing any longer. They had to put their faces close to the narrow square mouth of the trough to eat, and the iron bars rubbed their noses and mouths with scars everywhere. But even so, they still don't have enough to eat all day long, because bear farms believe that hunger and thirst can secrete more bile.
In such a small cage, they can only lie prone or on their sides all day long. Turning around, rolling and scratching are all out of reach for them. Some iron cages in bear farms have movable iron bars on the top of the cage. To remove the bile, workers pushed the bars down until they were completely immobile. Some workers never raised the iron fence for convenience.
Whenever a bear farm worker approaches, stretches out an iron hook in front of the cage and hooks their necks, they wail miserably. When the dark green bile was extracted one after another, they opened their mouths in pain, panted violently, their eyes bulged, and their limbs trembled... In their lives, such torture may occur 2 to 4 times a day. times, minimum 30 ml, maximum 200 ml. After taking out the bile, they often curl up in the cage and tremble, with tears hanging on their bright little eyes.
Some of these "cowardly bears" cannot bear the pain of bile cramps and scratch and bite the cage crazily until their mouths are full of ulcers. The liver, intestines and entrails were pulled out, howling and waving. When this happens, bear farms will "calmly and urgently" cut off their paws and peel off their fur.
In order to prevent them from scratching the catheter due to pain or discomfort, bear farms also use a torture device called an "iron vest". In 2003, when a brown bear and a hybrid bear were rescued from a bear farm in Tianjin and transported to the rescue center, the staff saw the legendary iron vest: a circle of hard iron sheets around their ribs. Being firmly fixed with a long handle reaching their throats, they cannot lower their heads all day long. These two bears wore such vests for nine full years.
("The Liberation of the Bear: The Road to Man's Redemption")
Can't stand up straight, can't turn around, only pain! No woods, no sunshine, just darkness! There is no freedom, no end, only suffering! In order to obtain bear bile, 12,000 black bears in Asia were brutally treated in bear farms! In fact, there are many herbal formulas and treatments that can replace bear bile, and the cruelty black bears suffer is simply unnecessary. Act now and lend a helping hand. Let's stop buying together. It is equal to killing. Please say no to bear bile products!