Ok, but think about this: there's no way they are going to sell some food with a viagra topping on a family friendly environment (and what kind of flavor would that give? yickes) and the snake being and aphrodisiac is more like a myth hence why they are selling it there. Selling dead animals like that is nothing out of the ordinary. It's just something cultural.
"It's just something cultural."
So are human slavery, female genital mutilation, honor killings, burning widows alive, and a whole bunch of other sick and destructive practices.
Just being a part of culture does not make something good or right.
China's love of animal parts as folk cures is driving some animals into extinction.
So, No! I don't have to like or accept that this artist both portrays this practice and reinforces the misconception that it actually works.
Some parts of culture can be amazing, but other parts like this are straight up wrong.
Did you just compare a natural aphrodisiac with genital mutilation?
Lol what you just said are not even related to the topic you started.... and as for my opinion...human eats animal meats everyday and using a dead snake as aphrodiastic doesnt make much of a different for me.....
Eating meat as sustenance is very different than killing an animal to use as a "medicine" that doesn't even work.
There is also a massive difference between consuming animals which have been specifically domesticated and raised to be consumed versus removing them from the wild, which is the problem that is driving species out of existence.
Maybe you can't see the difference between slaughtering rhinos for their horns to use as some BS "cure" for impotency and eating a burger, but I can.
Moreover, I have a much bigger problem with the former than the latter.
It's kind of sad and scary that you would think they are equivalent...
We are not stupid, we can tell the difference between the slaughter of an endangered animal and killing animals that are for food or medicine. Maybe this particular case is not so weird for me because where I live there are a lot of snakes and we eat them, use them for medicine and use their skins. Must be the same in places where snakes usually live and they are not even close to get endangered because snake meat is not as popular as the others and as i have read on this chapter, is the same in Japan. Maybe where you live there are no snakes and you think they are rare or something. Just chill, is a manga about a cop and a yakusa fucking.
I really don't like the idea of dead snake powder as an aphrodisiac, even in a fictional story.
Now if it had been ground up Viagra, that would have made more sense, as well as being more ethical.