Without “Vulture” Capitalists, Our Economy Would Rot

Vultures are ugly creatures. However, they serve a very vital function. They help get rid of animal carcasses safely. The putrid carcasses of animals carry many pathogens such as those which produce botulinum toxin, or cause cholera or anthrax, among other things which are deadly to humans.

Without “Vulture” Capitalists, Our Economy Would Rot 2Q==

Without “Vulture” Capitalists, Our Economy Would Rot 2Q==

Vultures have very powerful stomach acids which kill all such pathogens and safely remove them from the environment.

This was especially useful in India, where the majority Hindu population considers cows sacred. Since most cows are not destined for a dinner table, vultures served as an effective disposal system for dead cows and other livestock. The Parsi community, due to their religious beliefs, preferred to leave its dead for vultures to consume, rather than cremate or bury them.

The problem started in the 1990s when farmers began using a drug called diclofenac to treat their livestock. Diclofenac is toxic to vultures, and the contaminated carcasses decimated India’s vulture population. From as many as 80 million vultures in the 1980s, today only few thousand vultures remain in India.

What happened in the absence of vultures? Dogs and rats stepped in to feed on the carcasses. Unlike vultures, whose digestive tracts destroy all deadly pathogens, dogs and rats become carriers. The incidences of anthrax, plague, and rabies have skyrocketed. More than half the world’s rabies deaths annually occur in India.

The Parsi community had to stop their funeral practices because there aren’t enough vultures to get rid of the corpses, and the bodies were rotting and causing a stench which troubled the residents of nearby localities, not to mention the environmental threats posed by rotting corpses.

More: https://fee.org/articles/without-vulture-capitalists-our-economy-would-rot/?utm_source=ribbon
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Without “Vulture” Capitalists, Our Economy Would Rot

Without “Vulture” Capitalists, Our Economy Would Rot

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