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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;shellacjack, post: 4087425, member: 20192&quot;][USER=8289]@mmarco102[/USER]</p><p>So you abhor the use of ivory in todays market but make an exception for your own repairs, don&#039;t see how the price affects anything either, doesn&#039;t change the fact an elephant died for that ivory. </p><p>Your justification is, well its already been cut so may as well use it? yeah it should be thrown away its a product of brutal animal murder, might want to look into elephant killings for ivory, see where that product came from. I admire the beauty of a LIVE elephant, where the tusks should belong.</p><p>Some sick admiration of an elephants bones for the use in a shiny object is twisted.</p><p>Yeah we do live in a different world now where we have more information and alternative resources, we don&#039;t need whale oil anymore, or ivory. </p><p>Whoever profits off the item is to blame, the only people I sympathise with are the hunters forced into killing there countries great animals and heritage.</p><p>And back then people knew what went into the ivory trade, don&#039;t belittle there intelligence saying &quot;they didn&#039;t know&quot; they choose to use it because of the demand. Culture? its a stain on our culture, genocide of eleplant&#039;s like an other creature. Talent? anything can be carved doesn&#039;t have to be ivory, such as </p><p>a sythetic alternative,</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Synthetic ivory can now be crafted to the same diagnostic standards as genuine ivory (see M. E. Sims <i>et al</i>. <i>Ethnobiol. Lett.</i>2, 40–44; 2011), and its price in China is only about 14% of that of real ivory. First manufactured in 1865 to save elephants tusks from being turned into billiard balls&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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