It’s in our best interest for herpetologists to milk these snakes for their venom. Venom helps to generate antivenin and there’s a burgeoning community of scientists hoping to use snake venom to create new medicines.
Oh, heavens no.
We should just beat them all to death with a 2 x 4.
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http://biologybiozine.com/making-medicine-from-snake-venom/2081
People are such short-sighted, knee-jerk wimps.