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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Poisonous: will make you sick if you eat it. Venomous: will make you sick if it bites or stings you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait. So what if you ate the snake… wouldn’t that mean at that point it could be poisonous? Checkmate.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you consume venom and don't have any open sores, you should be fine in most cases.

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Poison, however, will probably still kill you if you inject it into your bloodstream. Then again, most things will kill you if you inject it into your bloodstream.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Poison is in the fangs not the meat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean… a fang can be eaten. Dogs eat all sorts of weird stuff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you eat a fang and it gouges into your skin and injects venom, did you eat it or did you get bitten?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not the fang that's poisonous but the glands and those absolutely could be even accidentally eaten. #debunked

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So the conclusion is venomous is a subset of poisonous and the movie totally watchable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fair enough lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Venom is transported through the fangs just so a bunch of children don't go eating a bunch of venom glands...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, venom is poisonous. It is a subset of poisons that are injected via bites or stings.