I think we need a marketing campaign in China...
...to tell the 'traditional medicine purveyors'* that dried poacher penis is far more effective in their remedies than any part of a wild animal.
*Fucking mumbo jumbo artists. Saw a part of a programme last night where they're paying $27,000/kilo for fungus-infused, dead caterpillars. FFS.
(, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 9:41, Reply)
Two companies have recently developed synthetic rhino horn
but conservationists doubt such alternatives would make any difference. For wealthy Chinese consumers the real thing is a status symbol.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 10:22,
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really?
Synthesizing a substance that has no medicinal effect to sell to people that think it does.
That's properly mad when you think about it
(, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 11:09, Reply)
It is
www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/thorny_issues/synthetic_rhino_horn_will_it_save_the_rhino
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 11:45,
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Pretty interesting for a fungus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_sinensis
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 13:59,
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