Animal Welfare Network Nepal NP - Nepalese poisonous snakes in high demand

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But where is the outrage over this? Milking wild animals for body

secretions? Any different than squeezing bear bile and then releasing into

the wild, or milking cows? Come on people, u can¹t deal with a pet dog on

airplanes (Oscar World tour 2009) but you are going to allow this: the

manhandling of wild snakes and the unnatural squeezing of glands, all in the

sake of science and medicine? Let your hypocrisy (or not) be known!

Seriously, the issues around Oscar and Vipers is directly connected, and

comes down to how pure your beliefs are regarding animal welfare, and how

far you are willing you go until purity overshadows reality. Another

example, we were all outraged over recent display of Elephant trunk

paintings on display at Indigo gallery, but are we equally outraged over

Cites selling dead tusker¹s tusks after they die a natural death on ³game

preserves²? Shouldn¹t these animals be allowed to rest in peace with all

their bones intact, instead of fuelling the illegal trade in Ivory? I think

animal welfare/rights activists need to come to terms with purity vs.

reality, or the whole business will just appear a joke to the majority of

the human population.

 

Jigs in Nepal, who is not going to milk his dog, nor allow him to fly around

the world anytime soon.

 

 

 

On 5/4/09 9:20 AM, " Lucia De Vries " <luciadevries wrote:

 

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> After India banned the trade in snakes some snake charmers have crossed the

> border into Nepal to catch snakes overhere. It's a sad development and no one

> seems interested in trying to stop it. Nepal needs a project like the Irula

> Cooperative that hunts poisonous snakes, rempoves the venom and release the

> snakes back in the wild. It's humane, promotes conservation and provides much

> needed income to tribal communities.

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> Snakes on high demand

>  Xinhua

>  http://thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Snakes+on+high+demand+ & id=

> MzM2MA== & catid=Nw==

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> KATHMANDU: Lured by high price for snake poison in the international market,

> smuggling of poisonous snakes by Indian snake charmers is on the rise in

> eastern Nepal, Nepali news agency RSS reported today.

> Dozens of snake charmers from various Indian cities have descended into Jhapa

> district, some 320 km southeast of the capital Kathmandu, to catch poisonous

> snakes and sell poison in the global market.

> Taking advantage of the summer season, the time when snakes come out of their

> holes, snake charmers play flutes to catch them.

> Much to the dismay of locals, the local administration has not initiated any

> effort to stop the smuggling of snakes, an illegal practice according to laws,

> the report said. A local of Dangibari-6 in Jhapa, Suresh Shivakoti, said

> Indian snake charmers have been illegally taking Nepali snakes to India to

> sell its poison.

> ³It seems that the concerned authorities have been allowing them to do so.

> Now, it¹¹s high time the Indian snake charmers are brought to justice,² the

> report quoted Shivakoti as saying.