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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:16 PM Jan 2014

Where can I get fresh rhino horn?

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)

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Where can I get fresh rhino horn? (Original Post) jberryhill Jan 2014 OP
Um...what? randome Jan 2014 #1
I did, but I might catch a fever jberryhill Jan 2014 #4
Grow your own. Vincardog Jan 2014 #2
The Fresh Rhino Symphony Orchestra? pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #3
Not since they lost their bamboo flute section jberryhill Jan 2014 #14
Oh, c'mon--I think what you're really looking for is cheap sax pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #18
There is already too much sax and violins in the media jberryhill Jan 2014 #19
I try to stick with the deeper philosophical questions pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #23
Too much of it can lead to this: The Straight Story Jan 2014 #5
Would you settle for Marrow Soup? eom Raine1967 Jan 2014 #6
Don't waste your time. Become a Scientologist instead. progressoid Jan 2014 #7
Oddly enough, it might be best to legalize (and regulate) rhino horn and ivory cthulu2016 Jan 2014 #8
You'd need a hell of a lot of 'em to start with. randome Jan 2014 #9
As long as you don't mind it still attached to the rhino, I suggest you try a zoo. Sanity Claws Jan 2014 #10
I recommend a nice HappyMe Jan 2014 #11
Hooked to the front end of a fresh rhino. Lasher Jan 2014 #12
Tiger bone. JaneyVee Jan 2014 #13
May Humbly Suggest Elixir of Long Life Wolf Frankula Jan 2014 #15
"Not only good but good for you!" struggle4progress Jan 2014 #24
You could always substitute civet coffee pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #25
That's too pricey for me right now, but I'm thinking struggle4progress Jan 2014 #28
I'd recommend washing them first--but that's just me pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #29
What a great idea! I'm thinking a photo of me humanely force-feeding coffee-beans struggle4progress Jan 2014 #32
I smell a real talent for pooblic relations! pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #33
Hmmm, you've given me an idea Retrograde Jan 2014 #34
Three of the five extant species of rhino are critically endangered. Vashta Nerada Jan 2014 #16
So say the "scientists" jberryhill Jan 2014 #17
What do they know? Vashta Nerada Jan 2014 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Jan 2014 #21
I myself always just go to the zoo, hop the fence, and pry some horn off a rhino struggle4progress Jan 2014 #22
Rhino porn? 1000words Jan 2014 #26
You're too late. They're all gone. n/t BlueToTheBone Jan 2014 #27
well, in Texas it seems.... mike_c Jan 2014 #30
You can find it in your ass U4ikLefty Jan 2014 #31
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. Um...what?
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:18 PM
Jan 2014

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)
4. I did, but I might catch a fever
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:21 PM
Jan 2014

Or was that one of those smug condescending responses to alternative medicine I've heard so much about?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
19. There is already too much sax and violins in the media
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 04:18 PM
Jan 2014

But I'm surprised that so few have raised the fact that that rhinos are endangered precisely because of "harmless woo".

progressoid

(49,991 posts)
7. Don't waste your time. Become a Scientologist instead.
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:21 PM
Jan 2014

It worked for John Travolta and Tom Cruise.

And it has "SCIENCE" in the name!

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
8. Oddly enough, it might be best to legalize (and regulate) rhino horn and ivory
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:22 PM
Jan 2014

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

(34,845 posts)
9. You'd need a hell of a lot of 'em to start with.
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:22 PM
Jan 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]TECT in the name of the Representative approves of this post.[/center][/font][hr]

Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
10. As long as you don't mind it still attached to the rhino, I suggest you try a zoo.
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:28 PM
Jan 2014

The rhino horn will be so fresh that the rhino will charge you with it.

Wolf Frankula

(3,601 posts)
15. May Humbly Suggest Elixir of Long Life
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 04:02 PM
Jan 2014

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)
24. "Not only good but good for you!"
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 08:23 PM
Jan 2014

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

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
28. That's too pricey for me right now, but I'm thinking
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 08:41 PM
Jan 2014

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

?361

and make the stuff at home myself

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
29. I'd recommend washing them first--but that's just me
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 08:58 PM
Jan 2014

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)
32. What a great idea! I'm thinking a photo of me humanely force-feeding coffee-beans
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 09:12 PM
Jan 2014

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

Retrograde

(10,137 posts)
34. Hmmm, you've given me an idea
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 10:42 PM
Jan 2014

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)
16. Three of the five extant species of rhino are critically endangered.
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 04:04 PM
Jan 2014

But I do think this post is facetious, at least I hope it is.

Response to jberryhill (Original post)

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
22. I myself always just go to the zoo, hop the fence, and pry some horn off a rhino
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 05:22 PM
Jan 2014

The stupid rhino can't do anything to stop me

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