....an article at The Conversation in which a group of Western academics defend the Chinese practice of snake farming (for food.)
No. I reckon the one thing they don't factor in is this: we should want Chinese and Asian people to stop believing that specific animals have specific beneficial medical effects if eaten. Encouraging eating snakes (which are considered one of the traditional medicine animals) only encourages them to yearn to eat other animals which are endangered or, for disease vector reasons, best left alone.
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