Poaching among the plutocrats

[TexasTowelie]

A liberal education vs. student debt

In April 2019 the chewed-on leather boots, belt buckles and rifles of three rhino poachers were found in an African national park, evidently eaten by a pride of angry, hungry lions.

In another incident the partially-eaten body of a rhino poacher was found by a police patrol. This poor fellow had been crushed by an elephant but was not on the elephant’s menu so was later digested by a neighborhood lion.

And so the world goes. Rhino horn, thought to be a terrific medicine by many Asian cultures, although it is made of the same material as our finger and toenails, sells on the black market for about $30,000 a pound. The average rhino’s two horns weigh a total of about 10 pounds, so the average kill could bring in about $300,000. That’s a good pay day.

Rhino horn has been a part of traditional Asian medicine and myth, particularly in China and Vietnam, for hundreds of years. It has been used to treat fevers, arthritis, gout, headaches, high blood pressure, typhoid, snake bites, hallucinations, cancer, erectile dysfunction, and impotence.

Read more: http://duluthreader.com/articles/2020/07/30/21338_poaching_among_the_plutocrats

[Scarsdale]

1. Poetic justice.

The hunter becomes the hunted. I hope they felt the fear the animals feel when they are being slaughtered for parts. In other word "I really don't care. Do U?)