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

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

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Poison is in the fangs not the meat

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

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

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

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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.

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