Carnivora: A Natural Nutritional Powerhouse

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Carnivora was created by a German physician in the 1970s named Helmut Keller. The company has two products, liquid drops and capsules, made from what it calls pure extract of Venus fly trap. Ostro got interested in the company well over a decade ago when he says he saw firsthand what the product could do.

Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobody knows where they go. What’s cropped up in rural North Carolina is essentially a Venus Flytrap crime ring — with lackies, middle men, and a mysterious end buyer who’s perpetuating the market.

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