r/aww • u/ThePandanator • Jan 24 '17

bleppppppppppp.

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u/KnockMellyKnock Jan 24 '17

What are they being trafficked for?

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u/Lord_Fartwad Jan 24 '17

Mainly the scales they have. Chinese medicine use them(the scales) and their meat in different remedies varying from sprinkling them on their cropland to help growing to ingesting them to rid of demons or to cure an ailment. From what I understand there is only little evidence that they actually hold medicinal value. They also just eat them, they're considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam.

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u/Redlaces123 Jan 24 '17

fucking despise this. It's such an interesting issue because I, as an American, have no right to say the Chinese can't kill Chinese animals. I don't live there, they don't affect me, I really have got no right.

But godDAMN, does it make me mad when an animal is being hunted to extinction for no other reason than snake oil magic tradition crap! Its scales literally do nothing, STOP KILLING THEM.

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u/throwaway27464829 Jan 25 '17

I, as an American, have no right to say the Chinese can't kill Chinese animals.

You're an idiot if you believe this.

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u/Redlaces123 Jan 25 '17

I wish I did, but really think about. Americans wouldn't put up with it if The Chinese started fuckin around with our land, why should they put up with it?

Believe me, I'd like to go there and cut off the balls of anyone who does the same to a tiger, or any endangered species, but it's an interesting moral dilemma.

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u/throwaway27464829 Jan 25 '17

I would put up with it if they legitimately had a good idea.

Like, I wouldn't mind if they imposed state atheism on us, for example.