Africans eat the hell out of monkeys and other great apes in Africa. Author Craig Stanford writes the perilous plight of apes in Africa I. His book called "Planet Without Apes" and in it he discusses various problems Apes face In Africa from loss of habitat to diseases but perhaps none is more appalling Han African love of wild protein and consumption of Ape meat.
The bushmeat trade has actually expanded and moves to African communities overseas as somehow these people got addicted to bushmeat. Just the idea eating something that is so close to our DNA is appalling along with the other risks of eating things in the wild. There can be many lethal pathogens in bushmeat and the spread of the Ebola virus can be traced to Africans savage willingness and demand for cheap bushmeat instead of raising livestock. These are people though that have difficulties working and fishing successfully for their substance yet alone trade with other nations and we should not be surprised these nations need to rely on wild jungle food that is risky.mi hope they all get ebola. Many Africans see it as part of their cultural heritage to eat monkey,hunt monkey, and carve up monkey in a flourishing profitable trade for jungle meat.
The great apes ace many diverse obstacles to their mere survival and being preyed upon for meat by humans shouldn't be even on the list of potential reasons for the Apes demise. The introduction of firearms and shotguns in the hands of these hunters and sped up the process of the destruction of the Chimpanzee and other primates from over zealous hungry hunters who know no other livelihood to subsist except slaughtering animals for meat. As long as these Africans continue to put such a high premium on howler monkey brains instead of ice cream for a desert we will continue to see the destruction of these great animals until every last brain is scooped up in a tray on the Congolese dinner plate.
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