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China just outlawed the consumption of wild animals. They're actively confiscating all wild animal meat. But since there is still a market for it, the ban could just make the prices go higher and the situation could effectively worsen.

They implemented a ban on ivory a couple of years ago as well. But this ban should have been implemented earlier.

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They should debunk and ban traditional medicine as unscientific paleolithic drivel. Then there won't be a market for those components, and lots of animals, from pangolin to the rhinoceros, will feel better. As well as decreasing diseases. Don't forget that the coronavirus pandemic started because of Chinese appetites for consumption of exotic animals.

Well, consider that in the US, televangelists sell cures for cancer and even coronavirus. Some people in this country also read horoscopes and consult psychics.

Yet, the US is not an unscientific paleolithic society. Superstition will always exist because ignorance is the natural state of the human mind.

When you are ignorant you can believe anything: like that eating ground horns or other phallic exotic animal products will make you virile, or you may believe that raising funds to buy a private jet for an ignorant preacher that never read the sacred book he preaches about will gain you the favor of a bearded male deity that cares about what happens in a rock in the middle of nowhere, or you may also believe that doing something for 10000 hours equals mastery.

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