I actually fact checked this and it’s true.

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    And they’re gonna go away because some wingnut convinced a bunch of people that their fins cause boners.

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      A family member once had to resort to traditional chinese medicine so solve an issue - and it acctually worked, I will admit upfront - but I kept hearing how shark cartilage capsules was the best to reinforce joints and one day I just snapped and replied along the lines of “by that same logic, to obtain insulin we should be grinding pig pancreas into pills for insulin”.

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        we used to use cow pancreas to get insulin actually. fortunately bioreactors exist and some clever people figured out how to gmo bacteria to make insulin

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        Is a species being poached to extinction? If so, it’s probably because there’s some sort of fertility/virility “medicine” derived from it that Asian men will pay insane money for. -tiger -rhino -civet -pangolon -shark