Was reading about the Western Black Rhino being declared extinct when I had a thought: What's so important about Rhino horns? What properties do they have that would lead people to poach them to near extinction.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/why-does-a-rhino-horn-cost-300-000-because-vietnam-thinks-it-cures-cancer-and-hangovers/275881/
Absolutely nothing is special about rhino horns. People are just retarded and think they are magical.
>>2314098
What?
Chinks and Niggers?
Quit being such a faggot and say what you mean.
>>2314080
what the fuck man
Evidence based medicine has fallen out of vogue for the rich and famous who turn toward homeopathy, holistic bullshit, and New Age fads because they don't trust doctors anymore.
It's happening worldwide. China is especially bad due to cultural history of bullshit fads but people shilling fad supplements and antivaccer nonsense is eroding the average person's trust in medicine by the day. Retards are even starting to believe in humorism again. It's pathetic.
They end up plundering nature because they bit the fucking appeal to nature meme hard and associate nature with everything good and manmade products with everything bad. Self-poisoning, deforestation, and ecological destruction is the result.
>>2314115
>Evidence based medicine
Isn't always so evidence-based. Profit is the primary motive, not kindness.
Have you heard about what happened with generic wellbutrin?
>>2314125
Fuck off, kook. Patent medicines do not give you an excuse to plunder nature. Fight for change within instead of conning people of your holistic bullshit
Mostly China and Vietnam's fault. They think it cures just about anything from erectile distinction to cancer. Same with tiger bones, penis, teeth, whiskers, etc. Pangolins, shark fins, bear balls, etc.
They've been using these in medicines for hundreds of years. You'd think they would have learned by now but nah. As their economy grows and more people rise out of poverty, the more demand. It's also a status symbol. Even the Tiger Temple got shut down after so many years of bragging about being a sanctuary for tigers.
>>2314130
>Making this many nutty extrapolations that have nothing to do with what I said
If there's a kook here it isn't me.
>>2314136
>I question EBM but I support nothing else in its place guys! Just crawl in a ditch and die if you have any health problem at all!
You're just a troll. 4/10
>>2314068
because chinks can tell other chinks it cures aids and gives them big peepees and they will believe it
>>2314100
I think he was trying to mock people that rightfully blame chinese
>>2314098
Its impossible to be conservative without being a conservationist.