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Naturally occurring has little to do with cost of production.

Coral snake venom is naturally occurring and has medicinal uses. $4,000 per gram.



I'm sure coral snake venom would be a lot cheaper if coral snake farms were more commonplace.


It’s not hard to start a venemous snake farm. Most states allow venemous snake keeping with various levels of oversight (some states there is no oversight) I think it has more to do with how hard it is to get venom out of a reclusive rear fanged snake.

The main point is just that “naturally occurring” has nothing to do with price.




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