Great Big Globs Of Mutilated Monkey Meat
Published by Alex March 15th, 2007 in Food, Survival. Share This
Here’s a new term for you: “Bushmeat”. Unfortunately it doesn’t refer to hoards of zombies descending upon the current administration and chowing down on the oval office floor, as lovely a thought as that might be.
Alas, it refers to the rats, monkeys, elephants, bats, and other wild animals from Africa that are being gunned down and used as foodstuffs. The report from ABC News states that
Experts estimate that about 500 million wild animals, from cane rats to elephants, have been killed in Central Africa for their meat. In the Congo Basin alone, this “bushmeat” is consumed on the order of 1 to 5 million metric tons, or the equivalent of 9 to 45 billion quarter pounders.
Further, and of more significance to us in the States, a
small percentage of that meat finds its way into the United States, and with it, scientists warn, comes a potential public health crisis.
This is a really, really bad idea. It’s actually affecting animal populations in the Congo, it’s so epidemic. And jeez, I sure as hell don’t want to get ebola because some stateside jerkoff wanted to have himself an African batwich.
Bushmeat: Curse of the Monkey’s Paw [abcnews.go.com]
First off I now have “Great green gobs of grimy greasy gopher guts” in my head. Gee thanks.
Second, thats not a monkey, its a chimp get it together people. I am obsessed with monkeys, I should know.
Thrid, why in the name of baby jesus are you talking about such a thing? Eat some ecoli ridden hamburger already! Or find some mad cow. Sheesh!
The article says:
“In many parts of Africa, wild animal populations have been “devastated” by people who have no alternative source of protein…”
Shit like this pisses me off. The West continues to fuck Africa over and over again, and these people are trying to do anything to survive. Look at the lady in the picture of the article; she’s not some warlord who is making a fortune off of smuggling monkeys; she’s just trying to survive.
And now you have dickhead reporters concerned about how ANIMAL populations are suffering because STARVING PEOPLE are eating the animals.
Monkey eating Monkey,it has a nice ring to it!