Reasons why i would not eat a MONKEY.

Well  everyone knows i love food.Any way i know very well they are food which are NO NO to me but i do respect those one who consider bushmeat as food and believe me i dont wish to start any argument but seriously i rather starve to death...Monkeys.
Sadly enough ,trade in bushmeat is a growing industry, and is spreading across the globe.  While some may find it satisfying and a  fine dining connoisseurs , i find it a serious threat to the existence of both wildlife and humanity. International airport have found out that many immigrants who live abroad are importing them in large amounts..I strongly oppose to it and the dangers here are diseases may exchange between humans and wild animals are some of the most dangerous, and are often hard to control.

Angela represents just one of many levels of the bushmeat trade. Many in central Africa, and elsewhere in the world, rely on bushmeat as a protein source in the absence or failure of livestock and crops. Trade in this form is considered “subsistence”, where as fine dining has fueled an even riskier commercial demand. Both subsistence and commercial trade in bushmeat pose serious health risks and are a grave threat to biodiversity.

I remember once i had a conversation with an Africa from Congo.i was seriously shocked when he told me that they do eat monkey,so i decided to do some research on it.After i carried out my research cos i thought he was joking,i really found out shocking details.

Young boy suffering from monkey pox (photo credit: Dr. Robert Shongo)

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has seen a recent surge in monkeypox, which kills roughly ten percent of those infected, has virologists concerned that the virus may begin to transmitted from human to human. The disease is initially transmitted from exposure to wild animals, usually primates and frequently through consumption. However, given time in a human host, a virus can potentially mutate into a form transmissible from human to human. This is the part that concerns the experts and me..

I consider it unclean food,of cause i have a list of what i consider forbidden food but thats for another day folks.

http://bushwarriors.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-dangers-of-the-bushmeat-trade-beyond-extinction-there’s-also-disease/http://bushwarriors.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-dangers-of-the-bushmeat-trade-beyond-extinction-there’s-also-disease/