International ban on BP trade

[Hugsplox]

People and alternative news sources alike love to rag on the herp community for.. Well, everything. But more specifically, they talk a lot about "big pet trade" and neglect to acknowledge that there are thousands of breeders worldwide that put a lot of time, and care into their husbandry and do really aim to satisfy both the customer and their reptiles alike. Not to mention that, obviously, a lot are captive bred and likely have been for a couple generations at minimum.

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I think sometimes this has a lot to do with the communities people have access to as well. For example, if you asked your every day person if they can name a forum website, I think MOST people would bring up Reddit, which is where I left to come here. If you jump in any of the pet keeping subs over there you'll find the most toxic, argumentative, know-it-all bullies on the internet. So if you're an animal rights person, and want to find a bad guy, that's your place to go. No one wants to look at the smaller .net BP forum that has taught me more in a couple of weeks than Reddit taught me in 8 years of being there.

Joe Exotic and the Tiger King documentary is a great example too. Netflix didn't make a documentary about a true conservation facility that's doing good work, because it wouldn't have picked up the viewership that that garbage fire of a show did.