I try to avoid wearing any dead animal on my body. What I already have I will wear, but I don't add to it. So I won't be wearing any rattle snake skin stuff. I can't stand the alligator heads that they use as decorations for things.
It is good that they at least eat the meat and milk them first. I agree with that. Plus the population could go crazy like it does with deer. If they didn't kill the deer they would starve and there would be too many hit by cars. They must believe that too many snakes will hurt too many people. It isn't a problem of there not being enough food for them is it? Plus we have to remember that lots of people see snakes as an evil demon thing. So they might enjoy banishing the devil.
They did an episode on The Simpsons about this snake roundup. Lisa talks the town into believe it is wrong. The snakes were really cute in it.
On a side note, my exhusband had a rattlesnake. It was small and nasty and would bash its head into the aquarium everytime someone walked by it. Trying to strike anything it saw moving. I couldn't stand that thing. It was scary. So one night I had a dream it was biting me. So I was hitting it to keep it from biting me. It was an awful nightmare. So in the morning I get up and come downstairs to find that it is dead. Just died over night. I think I dreamed it to death. I did feel sorry for the poor thing. He just didn't want to be there and it wasn't his fault.