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Bonus points for calling it Ivory - a luxury item which still results in the poaching and killing of these wonderful creatures today.

• doodpants 4y ago
  Mastodons are being poached and killed today?
• mecsred 4y ago
  It's still ivory if it's on a living elephant. Attributing the word ivory to poaching seems like attributing gold to piracy to me.
  • lowbloodsugar 4y ago
    The dentine on the inside of a tusk is what is carved out and called Ivory. The value of Ivory was because it could be carved easily and looked nice, and increasingly because of its rarity. The Ivory inside a tusk has no more value than the dentine inside your teeth - that is, it is a mundane part of the body. Why would someone call their product dentine? Is it a mundane, hidden part of a larger organism? Or is it because, once carved out, Ivory is rare and expensive? Please try to find a reason that it makes sense of an application to be called Ivory that is not because it still has connotations of value. The Ivory trade is disgusting. Anything that continues to promote Ivory as a positive is disgusting. Update: I think the two folks replying are making my point for me. If your product is a sugar-free gum that is good for teeth, then for sure call it Dentyne.
    • Finnucane 4y ago
      >Why would someone call their product dentine? Well, they couldn't trademark that, so they'd call it this instead: https://www.dentyne.com/ https://www.dentyne.com/
    • TylerE 4y ago
      https://www.dentyne.com/ https://www.dentyne.com/
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• chomp 4y ago
  > poaching and killing of these wonderful creatures today. Where can I find a mastodon?