This lines up with how it took 300 years for the giant tortoise to receive a scientific name. The process to get this required delivering a specimen back to England, and they were just too delicious.
Maybe and yes. It violates the Geneva Convention. But I’m sure there would be ways to ‘justify it’ if a country wanted to do so.
I had expected that it was not economically viable for agriculture, but the article has one source claiming it is actually quite affordable, given current water prices in the west.
A large portion of the article tries to give both sides a voice.