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To: BenLurkin

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.


5 posted on 09/04/2013 8:01:08 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia

Oh, heavens no.

We should just beat them all to death with a 2 x 4.

/s

http://biologybiozine.com/making-medicine-from-snake-venom/2081

People are such short-sighted, knee-jerk wimps.


9 posted on 09/04/2013 8:04:20 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...the clowns will eat me.)
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