process is harmless to rhinos but will allow customs officers to detect smuggled horns as they’re transported across the world
Woot no animals harmed. The bar is really low for me on this timeline.
Strange new bump in cancer cases soon to be discovered in middle aged Chinese men.
Seriously though, does a rhino horn have any circulatory connection to the rhino?
Because if not, something to consider would be injecting some sort of incredibly toxic poison that cannot be detected. Then if it’s ever consumed, the person consuming it dies or is made incredibly sick.
Then poachers won’t know which rhinos have been tainted, so all horns will be suspect and people purchasing them will stop.
does a rhino horn have any circulatory connection to the rhino?
So no:
But wouldn’t the poison leach out into water and harm other animals and potentially the rhino?
Would probably be some kind of crime but I’m all for it. Not sure it would stop sales though. Sellers would just lie about it like the baby formula.
If it’s deadly enough the buyers market will eventually disappear from lack of demand either way :)
Whenever someone brings up “traditional Chinese medicine” as somehow being better, remember that Chinese folk remedies are almost entirely responsible for rhino poaching.
And various species of pangolin being endangered or critically endangered.
Thoughts and prayers.
Poacher Fighting Mutant Rhinos! Poacher Fighting Mutant Rhinos! Poacher Fighting Mutant Rhinos!
Pachyderm Superior!
Horny Power!
1 rhino is killed every day
3.6 billion animals are killed every day for meat, milk, cheese and eggs
The point of that statement is about the impact of one death a day to an endangered species. So many farm animals being bred and then killed raises other ethical considerations and negative impacts but is not relevant to what this sentence tries to convey.
Ah okay I must’ve misunderstood
In any case Im questioning the milk, cheese and eggs?
Milking does not kill the animal and the eggs we eat are not fertilised.
Mammals have to be pregnant to lactate. Farmers forcefully inseminate the cows and kill the majority of the babies of dairy cows.
Only female chickens lay eggs so the males are killed at one day old in big blenders or gas chambers.
Skill issue
