China allows use of tiger bones and rhino horns in "treatments"

[Underseer]

WWF response: http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/press...f-domestic-trade-in-tiger-bone-and-rhino-horn
Chinese press release (in Chinese): http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2018-10/29/content_5335423.htm

Here's an unpleasant reminder that quack alternative medicine isn't a recent Western invention. The Chinese have been doing this for far longer than the West.

Unfortunately, this could legitimately cause the extinction of the rhino, all so that ignorant, uneducated people in China can use quack cures that have never been proved to work.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

What happens if you put some dirt in a jar and sell it as powdered rhino horn?

On the one hand, you're defrauding your customers, but on the other hand you're providing them with an equally effective product and probably selling it at a significant discount.