Sunday, 27 May 2012

Never be apathetic to our nature

The extracting of bear bile caused heated discussion among Chinese people in recent days. “During the short period of extracting bear bile, the bears look very comfortable.”; “You are not the bear, how could you know that they are painful.” These two sentences were come from the head of the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the head of one company which extracts the bear bile. I could not find a word to describe how I feel when I heard of what they said, is it angry, shocked, or shame? Though from their previous announcement which argues that it may be good for bears to extract their bile, some opponents of the extracting of bear bile still find the evidence of the permanent injuries to bears because of the extraction. Personally, another thing I cannot accept is the word “comfortable” they used. It is true that I am not the person who can feel the painful when bears are doing bile extraction, but they are also not the persons who can feel the so-called comfortable of bears.
During this heated discussion, what I saw are some endangered persons who only concentrate on their reputation and interests. They earned their money at the expense of our natural resources, and I believe that one day they will ruin themselves by what they have done to nature. It is not the single case to show the confliction between the development of economy and the balance of nature. It is a crucial time for people to calm down and think deep about the relationship between money and nature, one was created by human beings, on the other hand, one supports our human beings.

2 comments:

  1. Actually, it is sad that some people get angry when they see some animals are maltreated while they are apathy when something bad happens to a person. It is true that we should take care of animals well, however, we should pay more attention to human-beings.

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  2. We are not animals, so we do not have the right to say what they feel when we do certain things to them. Maybe sometimes, human beings just think animals are "comfortable" because human beings are "comfortable" given their own interests.

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