Venomous snakes escape breeding farms in southern China during flooding (www.theguardian.com)
from Wurzl@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 08:59
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michaelalf@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 09:24 next collapse

China, may I ask why in the holy fuck you are breeding venomous snakes?

DahGangalang@infosec.pub on 09 Jul 09:35 next collapse

Second this, even though I expect its for developing anti-venoms.

NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 09:42 next collapse

Many poisons make great medicine in smaller doses. Think about it, if for example some poison/venom is able to slow your heart to a stop, it can save your life in a smaller dose if your problem is that your heart rate is rising out of control

michaelalf@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 10:36 collapse

Yeah that makes sense. I think we do a similar thing here in Australia. I know we breed Sydney funnel web spiders.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 17:24 collapse

Booze.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 09:32 next collapse

Does this mean I’m going to have to pay more for my snake wine?

P00ptart@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 11:02 collapse

Yeah, but have you considered switching to 3 penis wine?

aramis87@fedia.io on 09 Jul 10:26 collapse

This is how we got invasive Burmese pythons spreading up the East Coast. The people keeping them as exotic pets absolutely swore they'd take care of them and they wouldn't escape and breed, then a hurricane came through and they didn't evacuate their pets and now we have fucking pythons slowly making their way north, devastating the local wildlife.