[presidio9]

Women work on bushmeat at the bushmeat market of Yopougon in Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 12, 2006. From Ivory Coast in the west through Equatorial Guinea to Kenya in the east, poaching to feed the bushmeat market is rampant. And it is threatening entire species, including man's closest relatives, the great apes. (Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)

"Ripened" Monkey: The other white meat...

[FearlessFreep]

I love bushmeat myself.

[KarlInOhio]

"A good ceremony, a marriage or an initiation is worthless unless you serve game at the table," said Ndong, a hawker at the bustling Oloumi market in Gabon's capital of Libreville.

It sounds like he has hired DeBeer's advertising agency.

[Vaquero]

Where hunting has been banned in Africa...the value is nil and only illegally obtained animals and their parts have any value at all, and only on the black market.

Where Hunting is legal in Africa, the animals have value, Westerners with money bring megabucks on safari and the game animal population has burgeoned. Once animals are legally hunted and killed, a large chunk of the meat and other products are distributed to the people for consumption while the "trophy" of the hide and head is prepared by taxidermists and shipped stateside. It is a win win proposition.

[Mikey_1962]

Mutilated Monkey Meat....

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"Ripened" Monkey: The other white meat...

A great way to introduce any primate-loving viruses lurking in some monkey/ape population into the human population.

Between Chinese men looking for ways to get an erection and Africans eating bushmeat, the endangered species don't stand a chance.

[Red Badger]

MMMMMMMMMMMM............ripened Mokney meat............

[calex59]

Ndong is one of many profiting from Africa's booming trade in bushmeat -- a blood-soaked business that has serious consequences for the continent's wildlife.

Typical left wing rhetoric. Notice the scare tatics and the brutalizing of killing game. Of course killing cows and goats isn't a "blood soaked business" is it?

The problem with most afican game animals is that they stopped big game hunting , therefore they took the incentive for taking care of these animals and for cracking down on poachers.

When big game hunting was a big business and brought in lots of bucks to their respective countries all of them took care to enforce game laws and keep poaching down, therefore controlling the number of animals that were killed each year.

Now they don't care, let the poachers run. The bottom line is, this is Africa's problem and none of ours. Let them take care of it.

[dfwgator]

Bush's Fault!

[atomic_dog]

A lot of that meat is actually pretty tasty. No joke. I ate at Carnivore in Mombasa and it was a blast. I can't speak for other places but in Kenya much of that "bush"meat is actually raised on farms specifically for consumption.