armed robbery over turtles - cuora trifiasicatas

[TheBloodyIrish]

Everything tastes like chicken...

Anyway, it's a sad part of Eastern medicine. Some of them do work, others has more spiritual reasons. Over there, they value human life over animal life; even though they do value animal life, their priority is different.

 

[dreamandscheme]

eastern people in general age better as well as live longer than western people. if it has worked for them for thousands of years than what right does any culture (that hasn't been around for half as long) have to say its wrong????

 

[Tylervsmith]

eastern people in general age better as well as live longer than western people. if it has worked for them for thousands of years than what right does any culture (that hasn't been around for half as long) have to say its wrong????

You are right, i think it is the will of the people, there thoughts helping them.

 

[Fishes33]

eastern people in general age better as well as live longer than western people. if it has worked for them for thousands of years than what right does any culture (that hasn't been around for half as long) have to say its wrong????

Its about the same to me Im not fond of getting an extra few years of life...

Anyway, it's a sad part of Eastern medicine. Some of them do work, others has more spiritual reasons. Over there, they value human life over animal life; even though they do value animal life, their priority is different.

"THEY" only did it, because of money ($$$$$), because many of "THEM" are poor... "MONEY" is the keyword in this incident

"THEY" dont value human life, there are too many, unless your rich or have some power, else "THEY" would value you as trash...

and "THEY" misbelieve in things... (eg. if you drink snake's blood and eat the heart, it will make you stronger and more sexually mature.. but "THEY" dont realize that wild snake have virus / bacteria that can dissolve red blood cells or can make a healthy person very sick)

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

That is true of any human. Comparing cultural differences and human nature are completely different.

First, to understand their reasonings, abandoned all you know about Western medicine and read up on traditional medicine and folk medicine and how they developed. Western medicine is not always the best, nor is traditional. In order to understand the property linked to some of those traditional cures, a scienitific study must be held and extract information out of it. However unfortunately because of their long history, a lot of those cures have spiritual connections as well.

Shun them all you want for destroying their native population, you cannot defeat people's rationale behind the purpose of taking those procedures.

I remember a segement on TV where they were trying to protect a rare Asian sturgeon, however people keep harvesting them because the surgeon has a spiritual connection with the local medicine. What they ended up doing is isolating a small population of sturgeon in a government program for aquacultural purpose and they are attempting to breed and restock the rivers.

 

[dreamandscheme]

we can debate all we want, but the fact is we don't know they could have stole it to help their sick grandma. if u weren't raised in their culture "YOU" don't know. just because "YOU" think their wrong and what u believe in is right, is fine with me, i think everybody needs to have their own opinion. just don't be scared or intimidated by somebody else's belief!!

 

[davo]

All modern medicine was based on "traditional/natural" remedies, as were things like fertilisers and insecticides etc. Then you find the component that makes it work and it gets synthesised.
And even if it works, it is hardly helping an endangered species by turning even more of them into a "jelly".