Bush Meat

By G. Pascal Zachary

Human interference has long threatened wildlife throughout the world, including dietary habits imperiling endangered species in West Africa. But an emerging Afro-environmentalism in Ghana is now raising hopes that animal protection there at least will improve. Many people who live in a broad belt of [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Well done. We never hear about something like this in the mainstream press.

    This is certainly the number 1 or 2 problem in Africa!  In the mainstream press all you ever hear about is AIDS, civil war, starvation, genital mutilation, child soldiering, blah, blah, boring boring.

    We clearly need to refocus our limited time on hungry people eating grasscutter.

    United States Posted by Tom L on Oct 15, 2003 at 3:44 PM

    Tom- You’re sarcasm is not even intelligently put out.

    Of course Africa has these problems/issues you wrote about. That doesn’t meane that you write an offensive letter saying that this article does’nt care about the other problems in that continent. People killing apes/monkeys/birds is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. How many spesies more do humans have to willfully kill off for fun/economic gain/hunting reasons?!

    You have to realize that we’re not exaclty the owners of this world. You may think you’re funny but when we lose spesies across continents like africa - guess the grasscutter does’nt matter to you though- we are ruining the planet.
    don’t know about you but I couldn’t sleep on that.

    United States Posted by Dan on Oct 15, 2003 at 10:02 PM

    Yes Dan, and the lesson learned from killing off the buffalo and the impact on the native Americans is forgotten.

    United States Posted by neil on Oct 16, 2003 at 1:41 AM

    Have a look at Karl Ammann’s site on this topic - we’re eating our closes relative…

    Karl Ammann; wildlife photographer, bushmeat activist
    http://karlammann.com/home.html

    Finland Posted by Leonard N on Oct 16, 2003 at 1:16 PM
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