The message I received claimed that the Indian forces are no match for the
gangs set on poaching tigers in India. It also claimed that the reason
for the poaching was traditional Chinese medicine which requires tiger
bones in order to deal with sexual problems. I don't really know anything
about this, but it seems to me that this would not produce the kind of
demand that would inspire gangs to defy Indian troops. I wonder what kind
of role the world economy, specifically capitolist demands for the skins,
bones, whatever, plays in this relationship. Transnational capitolists
have a habit of blaming traditional rituals for the negative effects which
they perpetuate on a much larger scale (eg. primitive agriculture vs the
timber industry especially in SE Asia and South America). Could this be
the case here?
