[Sans-Culotte]

I saw a story on this on the show ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING. He explained to a bleeding heart that charging exorbitant fees to hunters looking to bag endangered species in Africa raises enough money to allow them to set up up sanctuaries and do other things to help with conserving and increasing the herds of said animals.

[Flick Lives]

South Africa tried a mild version of this solution once. For 20 years, they made it legal to own rhinos and sell their horns.

Poaching dropped because legal rhino farming took away the poachers’ incentive. Rhino farmers bred rhinos and protected them. Once in a while, they’d put rhinos to sleep with tranquilizer darts and saw off their horns. The horns grow back. The rhino population quadrupled.

Win-win.

But animal welfare activists are never happy with any solution that involves profiting from nature.

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Of course. Because the Libs are extremists. Never mind the fact that a rhino isn’t hurt by trimming his horn any more than a human is hurt by trimming his fingernails.

[Tax-chick]

Instead, they run ads that say rhino horn is not good medicine.

Some people believe it is. This is a good reminder that it's a weird and irrational world out there.

If rhino horns are "medicine," so are you own fingernails.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I sure wish there was a Black Market for dog & cat hair. I’d be rich, rich, RICH! Maybe I DO need that Spinning Wheel I’ve been lusting after?

*SMIRK*

[Impy]

South African farmer John Hume says each of his 1,500 rhinos has 12 acres of land in which to run around

Wow, Lindsay Graham would just love that.

[yuleeyahoo]

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