Dangers of eating bushmeat

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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spelling dig-cgspace-10568-485672021-02-24T12:46:29Z Dangers of eating bushmeat Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 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 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... 1999 2014-10-16T09:14:34Z 2014-10-16T09:14:34Z News Item CTA. 1999. Dangers of eating bushmeat. Spore 83. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/48567 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99585 en Spore Open Access Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Spore
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