Dangers of eating bushmeat
Bushmeat, an umbrella term for all edible species of wildlife, includes not only deer, snakes, and elephants, but also chimpanzees and gorillas. Opening up African forests for logging also opens up the road to wildlife. Timber companies hire hunters to shoot game for their labourers; the meat is also sold to the growing urban populations. However, the fact that certain game might soon become extinct is not the only argument for not eating bushmeat. It is believed that the AIDS epidemic started when the ape variant of HIV jumped to humans through the preparation and consumption of bushmeat. Outbreaks of Ebola fever have also been traced to consumption of meat of primates. The Economist, June 1999
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1999
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/48567 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99585 |
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