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Chimpanzee Meat Being Eaten In UK As Border Force Urged To Bring In Testing (US-Bound Meat Stopped
The Telegraph ^ | 6/8/2019 | Staff

Posted on 06/10/2019 4:11:28 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...

Chimpanzee meat is being served as a delicacy at British weddings and served as 'bush meat' on market stalls it has emerged.

The border force is under pressure to introduce DNA testing to identify the meat at customs and has said it would be investing in new technology to tackle the rising issue.

Leading primate scientist Dr. Ben Garrod had said he was told by customs officials just weeks ago that a ton of bush meat from West Africa had been confiscated on a flight bound for the U.S.

He said it was routinely smuggled into Europe and the UK - which could cause the spread of serious disease...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: africa; aids; angola; congo; ebola
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To: dp0622

Not funny. :-(


21 posted on 06/10/2019 4:35:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Sacajaweau

I believe the Green Monkey was a source of AIDS.


22 posted on 06/10/2019 4:37:35 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: dp0622

That was funny. I rarely LOL.


23 posted on 06/10/2019 4:38:55 PM PDT by mindburglar (Stupid is supposed to hurt. - Lurkers Granddad.)
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To: know.your.why
Wrong part of the animal!

In Africa, "BUSH MEAT" just refers to any and ALL parts of the primate and in Nigeria, the skinned, butchered parts are hung from a hook, in open air markets and often covered in flies and other insects.

24 posted on 06/10/2019 4:39:14 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: BenLurkin

Best Post of the Day


25 posted on 06/10/2019 4:39:43 PM PDT by Rocko Jack
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To: Sacajaweau

It is and many others too.


26 posted on 06/10/2019 4:40:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: luvbach1
Green Monkeys are native to Barbados.

Are they in parts of Africa as well ?

27 posted on 06/10/2019 4:42:19 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Its All Over Except ...; All

“Waiter, I’ll have some bushmeat with a side order of Ebola!”

“And throw in some other hemorrhagic diseases for my friends while you are at it!”


28 posted on 06/10/2019 4:43:31 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: Sacajaweau

Great, just great... /s


29 posted on 06/10/2019 4:45:25 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: nopardons

Now I’ll be ducking you the rest of the night!! :(


30 posted on 06/10/2019 4:48:28 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Chimp’s? What next; Soylent Green?


31 posted on 06/10/2019 4:48:57 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: dp0622

That has a similar effect to when, as a young man, I spent some years up north in the Canadian bush and had my first taste of beaver...


32 posted on 06/10/2019 4:50:43 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: headsonpikes

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

This is a G rated board!!!! :)

Maybe PG :)

Canadian Bush...ROFL!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I hope you stuffed the first beaver you caught.


33 posted on 06/10/2019 4:52:59 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Boomer

You made me think of a great new movie:

Soylent Green Planet of the Apes!


34 posted on 06/10/2019 4:53:43 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Do chimps have similar illnesses and susceptibility to diseases as humans?


35 posted on 06/10/2019 4:54:44 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: nopardons

I don’t know where Green Monkeys are native to. I just remember reading (or hearing) that they (the consumption of their flesh) are a purported source of AIDS.


36 posted on 06/10/2019 4:59:48 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Soylent green is Apes!!!

Soylent Green is Apes? I thought it was people!!!

37 posted on 06/10/2019 5:00:04 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Ebola.


38 posted on 06/10/2019 5:00:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: luvbach1
I think that came from Eddie Murphy in Delirious

He wanted to meet the man that first blanked that green monkey!

39 posted on 06/10/2019 5:02:12 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Eating monkey meat is just gross.


40 posted on 06/10/2019 5:02:36 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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