Current Events > China shutting down ivory trade

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http://wapo.st/2hAkEqG

hilarious how China is stepping up to plate when America is being dragged backwards by Trump.

When we're in the position China was 30 years ago, and China is the propserity standard of the world, you'll all have republicans to thank for it.
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My parents have a pair of ivory chopsticks
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Two_Dee posted...

My parents have a pair of ivory chopsticks

pure evil

Have you ever seen a Chinese motorcycle crash?
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Are they shutting down ebony trade, too?

god damn racists
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CableZL posted...

Are they shutting down ebony trade, too?

god damn racists

Ebony is wood.
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what about rhino horn trade, or bear spleen trade, or dog skinning trade?
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ChromaticAngel posted...

CableZL posted...

Are they shutting down ebony trade, too?

god damn racists

Ebony is wood.

Oh what it's wood because it's BLACK

god damn racists
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlnkEKUXPu0

Little girl, I've had lots of jobs in my day. Whale hunter, seal clubber, President of the Fox Network...and...like most people, yeah, I've dealt a little Ivory.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

CableZL posted...

Are they shutting down ebony trade, too?

god damn racists

Ebony is wood.

wait, really?
damn Skyrim tricked me again
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Legalizing the ivory trade would protect elephant populations vastly more than doubling down on a ban.

fire810 posted...

what about rhino horn trade, or bear spleen trade, or dog skinning trade?

Shark fin too =(
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I havent had shark fin soup in so long
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Legalizing the ivory trade would protect elephant populations vastly more than doubling down on a ban.

History shows us the opposite.

A great deal of endangered species were saved by making it harder / more illegal to hunt them.

Bald eagles, various dolphins/porpoises, pandas, etc.

meanwhile leagalized fur trade saw the Sea Mink wiped off the planet in short order.
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Ivory keys on a piano are godsend. Love the texture.
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Sad_Face posted...

Ivory keys on a piano are godsend. Love the texture.

most ivory is synthetic these days because it's just way too fucking expensive to get real stuff. unless the piano you used was over $10,000 there is a good chance it wasn't real ivory.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

meanwhile leagalized fur trade saw the Sea Mink wiped off the planet in short order.

...in the 1890s, before industrial farming was really a thing.

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin:
http://www.truthaboutfur.com/blog/zimbal-mink-farm-wisconsin-family-affair/

Elsewhere, in South Africa, with some other species:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/11/can-farming-rhinos-horns-save-species/

Questionmarktarius posted...

...in the 1890s, before industrial farming was really a thing.

are you seriously suggesting industrial farming of elephants?
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

...in the 1890s, before industrial farming was really a thing.

are you seriously suggesting industrial farming of elephants?

Yes.
Were ivory legal, it would provide an incentive for commercial elephant ranches to exist, and an even stronger incentive to end poaching. May even find something useful to do with the rest of the animal.

China is a big machine and corruption is the grease. Literally anything the govetnment says means nothing, because private business run that country. Just like in America.

Questionmarktarius posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

...in the 1890s, before industrial farming was really a thing.

are you seriously suggesting industrial farming of elephants?

Yes.
Were ivory legal, it would provide an incentive for commercial elephant ranches to exist, and an even stronger incentive to end poaching. May even find something useful to do with the rest of the animal.

it would take like 10x the amount of energy / effort to raise one elephant than it would to raise a cow. Elephants are fucking huge and live insanely long. This is like trying to industrial farm Orcas except elephants are even bigger than orcas.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Sad_Face posted...

Ivory keys on a piano are godsend. Love the texture.

most ivory is synthetic these days because it's just way too fucking expensive to get real stuff. unless the piano you used was over $10,000 there is a good chance it wasn't real ivory.

It's the real thing. I haven't seen that piano in over a decade.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

When we're in the position China was 30 years ago, and China is the propserity standard of the world, you'll all have republicans to thank for it.

I hope we're tarring and feathering Republicans as a national holiday by then.
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Kineth posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

When we're in the position China was 30 years ago, and China is the propserity standard of the world, you'll all have republicans to thank for it.

I hope we're tarring and feathering Republicans as a national holiday by then.

Nah. They'll be driven into obscure niches of angry old men, as America slips into a European sort of mediocrity.