KAMPALA — Uganda's recent flood of Congolese refugees is having unexpected side-effects: some Ugandans are adopting the Congolese custom of eating primates, a new trend that may be linked to outbreaks of Ebola and represents a potential threat to the country's endangered chimpanzee population.
For some conservationists, protecting an animal that shares almost 99 percent of its DNA with humans is a deeply personal issue.
Oh, I know we’re expected to walk-on-egg-shells on this one in the name of “tolerance”, “respect for other cultures”, political correctness and all of the other claptrap peddled by liberal/progressive circles, but let me be the first to say it: I fervently wish a good, lethal, case of Ebola on anyone eating a primate or trafficking in any bushmeat; just as I wish chronic wasting disease in cervids (introduced to much of the wild populations courtesy of game farms) was vastly more contagious for humans who butcher and eat deer or elk. Fundamental cowards that they are, that would probably do more to dampen the ardor of North American nimrods than any thousand impassioned appeals to their sense of decency.
Thanks for being the first to say it here, Geoff. I’ve said it before and I back you up for saying it now.
Sense of decency? Those psychopathic serial killers have no sense of decency.
Good feckin’ grief. Is there nothing we won’t eat?
There’s a lot that I won’t eat