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Legal sources of ivory will only increase poaching. We have problems with blood diamonds, do we really want to allow a legal market that involves the harvestin
by electromagnetic 12y ago
Legal sources of ivory will only increase poaching.
We have problems with blood diamonds, do we really want to allow a legal market that involves the harvesting of living beings for luxury resources?
Unless we're talking buying 100,000acres and running a breeding operation (inseminating the females) and culling all the excess males I don't see this being remotely possible, and even if it was possible in a practical sense the morality issues outweigh all.
I can't even grasp why anyone needs something made of ivory. If your life is so devoid of meaning, and so full of money to waste on material excess... I actually just pitty you.
- wcummings 12y agoI wonder if a breeding operation would be profitable
- electromagnetic 12y agoIf you could legally sell it, I'm sure it could be highly profitable. However, most Zoo's can't give a limited number of elephants adequate room. So I highly doubt a breeding operation would.
- wcummings 12y agoYeah, but an ivory farm would have a lot more revenue than a zoo, no?