Brutal Animal Abuse Exposed in China: Protesters Clash Violently with Police!

Chongqing's Sam's Packing Grow exposed in brutal animal abuse scandal, sparking public outrage protests by residents' face, police crackdown and censorship. Old man scam goes viral, middle-aged men trapped in honey traps. Avoid disease is drowning Chinese society. China's food is undergoing major genetic mutations. People don't dare eat. Fruit prices are collapsing with tens of thousands of tons dumped. The dark truth about mainland China's entertainment industry. Bugai changing careers. Li Bingbing is willing to act for free. Are all celebrity actors crashing? The CCP uses AI for stability maintenance to predict who will become a dissident. You're watching China Revealed, your source for timely analysis and grounded perspectives on today's China. Chongqing's Sam's Packing Grow exposed in brutal animal abuse scandal, sparking public outrage protests by residents' face, police crackdown and censorship. A man in Chongqing known online as Sam's Packing Grow has been accused of luring cats and dogs under the pretense of adoption, then brutally torturing and killing them for profit. The case exploded on social media after videos and reports surfaced, showing the extent of the abuse. Large crowds of animal protection activists gathered outside his home in the De Shiba area to protest holding banners that read Heartless Monster and Utterly Deranged, along with photos of the victimized animals. Police moved in with arrests and forceful crowd control. The man identified as Li Meng had become locally infamous for repeatedly taking free samples at Sam's Club and packing large amounts to go in his own containers. He once splashed soup at staff who tried to stop him. Animal protection activists say he posed online as a caring woman to adopt kittens and puppies. Once he took them home, he subjected them to cruel methods filmed the killings and allegedly sold the footage in overseas animal abuse groups. Neighbors had reported him before for torturing animals on his balcony, but nothing was done because China has no animal protection law. One neighbor captured video of the abuse. Activists found a severely injured puppy abandoned near his home. A veterinary exam showed its teeth had been sawed down its tail cut off, and it had multiple bone fractures. A local woman who trusted him with a litter of stray puppies later learned he had killed the mother dog and tortured the young ones on his balcony. The Jiangbei District Branch of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau said the case was under investigation. That same day, the story topped Weibo's hot search list. Crowds gathered outside Li Meng's residence. Police arrested several protesters. Videos showed a young man in black pushed to the ground another, in white taken away a chubby man in gray carried off by officers grabbing his limbs, and women dragged away. Chinese authorities quickly moved to censor information. Searching for Sam's packing bro on Douyin returned. No results found. Several related articles on Sina.com were deleted. Instructions circulated on Weibo telling people at the scene, if taken away, do not say you are a volunteer. If asked why you gathered, say you thought there was a business promotion. Do not mention animal abuse. Pretend you do not know. Netizens reacted with fury. Comments included, get out of Chongqing, get out of earth. Since there is no law to speak for them, let public opinion make his family pay. When will animal abuse finally be criminalized? Not passing an animal protection law means we will always be backward. Humanity is gone. Don't let the devil go. On ex-users pointed to the broader pattern. One wrote, once hooligans put on police uniforms, they become civil servants. Once civil servants take off their uniforms, they become hooligans again. Another described the Chinese Communist Party's response as normalized, violently suppressed protests in reality censor accounts, and delete content online, then deploy paid trolls to whitewash the story. It is a complete assembly line. To maintain the stability the emperor wants. They will stop at nothing. The case highlights deep failures in the system under the Chinese Communist Party. Without basic animal protection laws, abusers operate with little fear. When public anger boils over, the response is not justice, but arrests and information control. Ordinary citizens who try to hold monsters accountable face police force and censorship. The incident has exposed not just one man's cruelty, but the regime's consistent priority maintaining control and suppressing any challenge to its image. Even when it means shielding animal abusers and silencing those demanding basic decency. Many see this as another sign of a society where power protects the powerful and leaves the vulnerable, whether animals or protesting citizens without real recourse. Old man scam goes viral. Middle-aged men trapped in honey traps. The void disease is drowning Chinese society. Would you send 10 yuan just for someone to call you big brother? If your first thought is that it is only the price of a bubble tea and no big deal, then you have already been flagged by the radar of what has become one of China's most absurd and widespread online schemes. The old man scam. In northern Chinese dialect, scam means to exploit, deceive, or drain someone's money. Here, old man does not refer to elderly retirees practicing Tai Chi in the park. It is an ironic term for middle-aged men in their 30s to 50s weighed down by mortgages, car loans, workplace stress, and tense home lives. The scheme involves young women or those pretending to be born after 2000 who use sweet voices to call these men big brother and extract small sums for bubble tea or takeout. Many wonder how middle-aged men who have seen decades of life could fall for such obvious tricks. The answer lies in deeper societal pressures and emotional emptiness. Behind the screens is a cold, industrialized operation. Scammers first build convincing personas. Profile pictures look sweet and innocent. WeChat moments show curated posts about being a recent graduate struggling with rent harsh bosses and loneliness in the big city. These details trigger protective instincts in middle-aged men. Then comes the emotional feeding stage. Good morning, good afternoon, and good night messages arrive like clockwork. Every work complaint gets an immediate caring reply. Big brother, you've worked so hard today. You're the best. Make sure to take care of yourself. Once the target gets used to the attention, the operators move to the capture phase. Three chats, one request. After three casual exchanges, they make a small ask that seems natural. It's summer. I want a bubble tea. I'm short 10 yuan for a taxi on a rainy day. My phone bill is overdue. Can you top up 30 yuan? They send photos of an empty fridge or wet shoes to build sympathy. The amounts stay tiny, 10 to 20 yuan, so the target feels little financial pain and sometimes even a sense of accomplishment when thanked. The operators follow strict rules. No face reveal, no video calls, no in-person meetings. No matter how much the man pushes to escalate, there is always an excuse. A police raid in Shibu Shandong exposed a major ring. None of the operators were women. Every sweet little sister was a middle-aged man in a rundown apartment using voice changers. One skilled operator can manage hundreds of targets at once and earn hundreds or thousands of yuan daily, often more than the victims make in a month. The system ranks targets like products. Tier 1 gets dropped quickly if they show no willingness to pay. Tier 2 receives occasional nudges. Tier 3 consistent small senders gets careful management. Tier 4, the deeply hooked faces, elite scripts to extract more. Tier 5, when money runs low or suspicion rises, sees chat history sold to other networks for another round of exploitation. Most men see through the fakery. They know the messages are likely mass-sent and question if the person is even female. Yet many keep playing along. Some openly ask to be exploited on social platforms. The reason is the deep emotional void in the lives of men born in the 1980s and 1990s. At work, they face intense competition from younger, cheaper colleagues and harsh bosses. At home, spouses focus on money and children demand attention. But real conversation is rare. Socially, WeChat contacts number in the hundreds yet few offer genuine support. They delete vulnerable posts when no one responds. Society teaches men to stay strong and shoulder burdens. Vulnerability is weakness. So they suppress anxiety, smoke an extra cigarette in the car or linger in the parking lot before facing family. For 10 or 20 yuan, less than a pack of cigarettes, they buy three caring messages a day compliments and the rare feeling of being pampered. It gives a sense of power in a life where they feel like ATMs and handymen at home and subordinates at work. Many see it as a safe, low-risk emotional outlet. Cheaper than a real affair. But this is self-deception. What starts as small red envelopes can escalate into hundreds or thousands. One man in his 50s reportedly sent over 80,000 yuan across more than 200 transfers in two years. For married men, it damages trust and family stability. If a wife did the same seeking online comfort for a few dozen yuan, the household would likely collapse. Affection bought online is an illusion. When payments stop, the sister disappears. The man behind the voice changer will not shed a tear. The old man scam does not prey on greed or fear like other schemes. It exploits profound loneliness. In today's harsh internet environment, the cheapest temptations often cause the most damage. Middle-aged men are not just losing small change. They are feeding a deeper emptiness, with poison slowly eroding their own lives while the operators count the gains. China's food is undergoing major genetic mutations. People don't dare eat. Fruit prices are collapsing with tens of thousands of tons dumped. A video of mutated fruit shows someone exclaiming, Look at this. Is it weird or not? Shake it a bit. Can you even blink? The greens over here are high-tech now. Do you guys know what's going on? This orange when you peel it open. There's another orange inside and inside that there's yet another one. What the hell is this thing? Has it mutated? This is too embarrassing. People across China are posting videos of increasingly strange food they buy at markets and supermarkets. Eggs with no yolk bubble inside. Cucumbers come with abnormally long stems and stay mostly stem. Purple peppers appear on shelves. Zucchini bought fresh turns, strange in just two days. Strawberries rot with pits after one day. Carrots look fresh with leaves but cut like wood inside. Tomatoes sit for over 10 days in summer heat with no spoilage. One person asked if this kind of tomato is harmful to the body. The changes go beyond normal variation. Oranges sprout inside when peeled. Pumpkins are found full of bean sprouts. Fruits look perfect outside but crawl with bugs inside. Watermelons bought weeks ago show almost no spoilage even without refrigeration. In the past, food had some preservatives and pesticides. Now high-tech methods, heavy growth regulators and ripening agents are common. Vegetables and fruits mutate from the seeds. Cucumbers and zucchini continue growing after harvest. Developing bumps. Under what circumstances do vegetables keep growing after being cut from the plant? Many suspect overuse of growth hormones. Shoppers say they no longer dare eat some items after buying them. At the same time, farmers face the opposite problem. Oversupply and crashing prices have led to widespread dumping. In one scene, a vendor refused to sell plums for one wen. Too much stop messing around. The kid has started school no more spending money. Piles of pears, melons and other fruit were poured out to feed fish. Trucks of mangoes were dumped. Mangoes. Anyone eating mangoes come pick them up quick. Don't be shy. Pour them all out. A durian seller lost money on a whole truck costing 12,000 yuan. After three days, sales could not keep up with rotting. They're almost turning into man-eating flowers. What to do? I really can't hold on anymore. Vendors grilled meat on half a watermelon because they could not sell the fruit. Rows of vegetables waited to be grilled because they could not be sold at market. Fruit farmers in the mountains dumped piles like carpets. Guizhou plums hit the market and no one wanted them even at one wen per gin. Farmers who planted large orchards were furious. A few years ago, they sold for five to six yuan. Now, they dump everything. Cherries dropped to one or two wen per gin. Farmers called excavators to uproot trees completely so they would not bear fruit next year. Sunshine musket grape growers cut down young trees. Peach farmers stopped picking because labor costs were not worth it. And chopped down the orchards. Nectarines were offered for free picking in some places. One vendor said, Big bundles of barley greens. Super big bundle for 10 yuan. Look around the whole market. Where are the customers? Row after row. It's all vendors. Two families are going to go broke. The contrast is stark. Shoppers worry about unnatural chemically altered food that either spoils strangely fast or stays unnaturally fresh. Farmers watch their hard work rot unsold or sell at prices that do not cover costs. The Chinese Communist Party's approach to agriculture with heavy reliance on chemicals growth regulators and industrial methods to boost output has produced these results. Promises of modern farming have led to strange mutations in produce and market chaos that hurts both consumers and producers. Ordinary people face questionable food safety while farmers cry in despair dumping crops they cannot sell. The system that pushes for high yields and control has created a situation where food looks suspicious and markets collapse. For many, the question is no longer just what is safe to eat, but how long this distorted system can continue. The dark truth about mainland China's entertainment industry, huge changing careers, Li Bingbing is willing to act for free are all celebrity actors crashing. Stop envying the glamour of actors. No one understands the suffering of actors at the bottom. That line from one struggling performer captures the harsh reality now facing China's film and television industry. Many who once dreamed of stardom are confronting unemployment and financial desperation. Even well-known names are feeling the pressure. Han Dong, who rose to fame in Scarlet Heart, said during a live stream that he had no roles and was struggling to pay his mortgage. Li Bingbing publicly told directors she would act for zero pay as long as the script and role were good. I am just an ordinary actor who loves performing, she said, welcoming young or low-budget directors to contact her. The competition has become brutal. For one production called The Emperor has arrived, hundreds auditioned. Extras now compete with fast hand speed to grab whatever small role is available. As an actor, getting roles this year has been extremely difficult, one performer said. There are 300,000 actors unemployed in Beijing. Another added, if I had not changed direction, I would not have survived. Because there were no roles to film anymore, so I started doing live streaming. Hengdian Long called The Hollywood of the East is in especially bad shape. In previous years, an average of 45 to 50 productions started each day with studio usage over 90%. This year, that number has dropped to fewer than 10 per day and 80% plunge. 90% of small and medium-sized crews have stopped operating. Short drama budgets for live action have been cut by 70%. While investment in AI short dramas has surged to 95%. One actress who has been in Beijing for 14 years now sets up a street stall. My name is Mingxing, which means star. But I am not a star, she said. Instead of lying flat and giving up, it is better to set up a stall. These days, if you rely on a mountain, the mountain collapses. If you rely on people, they run away. No one can be relied upon. You can only rely on yourself. Many have left the industry entirely. Some work as paid climbing companions at Mount Tai. Others have gone into factories. As long as we are alive, that is enough, one actor said. It is already good enough if everyone can stay alive. Just live well. Registered extras in Hengdian now number 140,000, but more than 70% get fewer than three days of work per month on average. Pay for featured roles that once brought 800 to 1,500 yuan, a day has fallen to around 300 yuan when work is available at all. The problems run deep. Strict censorship limits subject matter and creates unpredictable approval processes. The review process for film and television dramas is so strict, yet there are no standards at all, one insider said. Whether a drama can be filmed is unknown. After filming, whether it can pass review and be broadcast is also unknown. A single project can cost tens of millions of yuan. If it fails review, the entire investment is lost. Many current dramas focus on affairs divorces and messy relationships that feel awkward and unrealistic. Others push party spirit and include quotations from Xi Jinping, which leaves viewers cold. Young people, including the actors themselves, prefer re-watching old dramas rather than wasting time on new ones. Platforms and capital chase traffic and data instead of quality. This has accelerated the collapse. The film and television industry is now so competitive that there is no end to it, one extra said. Many directors and screenwriters face low thresholds and produce careless work. The result is content that feels disconnected from real life. Some netizens point out that today's mainland dramas often lack human nature and focus on promoting the party line. The pain spreads beyond big names. Photographers, lighting technicians, costume artists, makeup artists and prop workers attached to productions have gone three to five months with zero income. Small and medium producers and assistant directors have seen companies collapse or exhausted their connections without landing projects. 90% of Hengdian's soundstages now sit empty. The Chinese Communist Party's tight control over content combined with an industry model that rewards traffic over substance has created this crisis. While authorities claim vigorous development, the reality on the ground shows mass unemployment, creative stagnation and desperate survival measures. Actors who once chased dreams in front of cameras are now fighting to pay rent and put food on the table. For many, simply staying alive in the industry has become the only goal. The glamour has faded, leaving behind a clear picture of an industry in serious decline under a system that prioritizes control and appearances over genuine creativity and opportunity. The CCP uses AI for stability maintenance to predict who will become a dissident. Leaked internal documents from the Chinese cybersecurity firm Giege Networks reveal the company is building artificial intelligence tools that go far beyond monitoring known critics. The system aims to predict who might become a dissident in the future, so authorities can act first. Researchers at the firm have worked to create individual behavioral profiles using telecommunications records, social media activity and location data. The goal is to flag people whose patterns suggest they could one day criticize the government. Cheng Yishou, an associate research fellow at Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research, explained how this works in practice. If the CCP's national security agencies want to monitor dissidents inside China, they can obtain this information about other people through telecom companies and by using the intelligence law or the national security law, and then use this set of algorithms and software to conduct assessments. The foundation for such a system is the Chinese Communist Party's total control over private data. Through years of accumulated records from phones, internet use, street cameras, and movement tracking authorities can identify patterns even without advanced AI. With AI, the process becomes faster and easier. Shenming Shi, another research fellow at the same institute, pointed out the deeper problem. In the past, the CCP's stability maintenance budget exceeded its national defense budget. But this information-related work is endless. It does not care about people's lives. However, when it comes to controlling the people or maintaining the stability of its own regime, it spares no expense. The combination of authoritarian power and artificial intelligence creates a dangerous new reality. Shen warned that the scope will keep expanding from people who have already criticized the government to those who might criticize it to those who might simply think about it. Thought criminals will all become political prisoners, he said. Giege Networks has also exported similar surveillance and censorship technology to authoritarian governments in countries such as Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan. Shen described this as part of a broader pattern. China is, of course, also happy to use its own relatively advanced technological development to promote these stability maintenance systems and models to other countries. It becomes another model for promoting the so-called Beijing consensus. The system's biggest technical weakness is computing power. Seng Yishuo noted that processing massive amounts of multimodal data in real time requires high-performance AI chips. This is something I have been raising over the past few years. Does the CCP have the computing power? If you want to monitor the entire population, you need a much larger volume of information. Then, do you have the computing power? That is the biggest problem. Especially now, chips are restricted. So this problem becomes even bigger. The Chinese Communist Party has poured enormous resources into this technology in an effort to eliminate any unpredictability in society. Scholars say the drive reflects deep insecurity rather than strength. The regime already collects private information through every possible channel. Now, it wants to use artificial intelligence to peer into people's thoughts before they act. The result is a digital cage that treats potential disagreement as a crime that must be prevented. This is not science fiction. It is the logical extension of a system that has long viewed its own citizens as potential threats. The CCP's stability maintenance apparatus no longer waits for dissent to appear. It tries to predict and neutralize it in advance. The human cost will be measured in ruined lives and silenced voices long before any public protest ever occurs. For a regime that claims to represent the people, the need for such preemptive control reveals a profound lack of legitimacy. We appreciate your feedback. Please share your views in the comment section. If this content spoke to you, we invite you to share it with your network. Your continued support allows us to pursue independent high-quality journalism. Subscribe and like to stay current with China Revealed. Thank you for watching.