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Unless you are a member of the authoritarian "anti-woo" crowd, you probably know that rhino horn has been a traditional medicine for hundreds of years. While the scoffers deride, with their blind faith in government propaganda, what the Chinese have known for centuries, I keep an open mind about these sorts of things.
As is well known by millions of people not brainwashed by big pharma brainwashing, rhino horn can be used to treat high fever, impotence, and a host of other illnesses.
Most recently, the authoritarians have made it difficult, using the force of law, to get reliable supplies of rhino horn. Unable to win the argument rationally, the authoritarians have resorted to the use of government force in order to prevent people from using this natural remedy.
Even if the authoritarians are right, they still haven't shown that taking rhino horn is harmful, but their controlling mindset can't tolerate a little harmless fun.
Has anyone figured out a way around the government control of imports in order to get a consistent supply of this amazing treatment?
(And if you can't find me some rhino horn, I'll settle for tiger bone)
randome
(34,845 posts)Come in from the cold, Jerry!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Or was that one of those smug condescending responses to alternative medicine I've heard so much about?
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)But I'm surprised that so few have raised the fact that that rhinos are endangered precisely because of "harmless woo".
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)It worked for John Travolta and Tom Cruise.
And it has "SCIENCE" in the name!
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The argument is that rhino and elephant farming would increase their numbers.
I do not know eactly how it would work out, but the current "poaching and killing to harvest tissue the animal can live without" situation has a worst-of-both-worlds feel to it.
randome
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Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)The rhino horn will be so fresh that the rhino will charge you with it.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)eye of newt soup instead, garnish with tincture of unicorn hair.
Lasher
(27,597 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Powdered gold, quicksilver and wine, made by Old Taoist recipe.
Also Mouse Dirt wine, expensive wine with ground up mouse dirt. "Good for love!"
Wolf
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)I was going to make Quicksilver Mousedirt surprise for New Years but I couldn't find the ingredients at either Costco or Sam's Club
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Some people really get behind Kopi luwak. At bottom, they say it's berry good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)if I got a kitty cat
and a litter box
and the right funnel
and a bag of coffee beans
I could jerry-rig something like a pate gavage machine
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and make the stuff at home myself
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)If you have too much for yourself, you could always catapoolt it into a poocrative business. There's no end to the shit people will buy.
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)to little kitties, and maybe a pic of my bean-filled litter-boxes, is sure to interest people in buying this artisanal hand-crafted product
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)But I think "hand-crafted" may be stretching it a bit...
Retrograde
(10,137 posts)Some people will pay big bucks for powdered rhino horn. Rhino horn is not real horn, but essentially compressed hair. I have a cat who sheds his body weight in hair every day. Now I just need a way to collect it, compress it into a cone, come up with a clever marketing name and - PROFIT!
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)But I do think this post is facetious, at least I hope it is.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Response to jberryhill (Original post)
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struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)The stupid rhino can't do anything to stop me
1000words
(7,051 posts)Is that a thing, now? You crazy kids ...
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)mike_c
(36,281 posts)U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)where you pulled this lame argument.