Illegal bushmeat 'rife in Europe'

[cory777]

Source: BBC

About 270 tonnes of illegal bushmeat could be passing through one of Europe's busiest airports each year, the first study of its kind estimates.

A team of researchers says the illicit trade could pose a risk to human or animal health and increase the demand for meat from threatened species.

The figure is based on seizures from searches carried out over 17 days at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

The findings appear in the journal Conservation Letters.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10341174.stm

[flvegan]

1. "...and increase the demand for meat from threatened species"

Fuck every single douchebag fuckwad "person" involved in this. The sooner mother earth shakes us off, the better off she'll be.

[msongs]

2. humans could just quit eating dead animals. its not that difficult nt

[flvegan]

4. Oh, you don't need to tell me that, friend.

But a good point to make. And...something that could be done tomorrow by so very, very many.

[Abq_Sarah]

5. What?

And have us eat live animals?

[proteus_lives]

11. Quit eating dead plants. It's not that difficult.

[Unvanguard]

14. We prefer to make our particular arbitrary distinctions.

Save the whales and down with Michael Vick, but keep the factory-farmed cows, pigs, and chickens coming...

[Chulanowa]

16. Factory farming can go get fucked, too

I eat meat. Sorry, I know this doesn't make me "hip." I've even killed my own meat (GASP!) but I buy the stuff only from local producers. Of course I have the benefit of living in an area where beef, mutton, and chicken is in ready supply, and really is the "free range" it's advertised as.

[EFerrari]

6. I have that thought more and more often.

[petronius]

3. Who's buying it? I'd guess it's for an immigrant community but it doesn't say

Also, I wonder what the breakdown is between personal consumption and a purely commercial enterprise...

[HomerRamone]

7. Bush meat? I won't even buy Bush's beans ~(_8^(|) nt

[TygrBright]

8. WTF is "bushmeat"?

Hopefully nothing to do with the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from 2000-2008. That would be icky. And very, VERY toxic.

confusedly,
Bright

[Bonobo]

9. Sadly, it includes bonobos, chimps and gorillas.... (image warning)

[trusty elf]

12. ground zero

[ProudDad]

10. Aw Damn!

I thought bush the lesser had left his secure compound in Dallas, TX and tried to sneak into Europe...

Only to be hauled up before the Tribunal at the Hague...

Damn! False alarm...

[ZombieHorde]

13. The psychology of meat eating is interesting.

Many people are deeply threatened by vegetarians. When I was a vegetarian I never tried to push my diet onto others, but when meat eaters discovered my culinary choice, they almost always freaked out. When I was vegan, the spiritual coordinator of the local Buddhist center snapped at me; "Milking doesn't hurt cows!" He asked me why I did not want cheese on my bean burrito, and then he got pissed. Really interesting.

I think we need to figure out the psychology of meat eating in order to stop whaling and other unsavory meat eating practices.

[cosmicone]

15. Meat eating has a simple psychology - addiction

and the meat eaters who get angry at vegetarians do so because they feel guilty and inferior.

It is difficult to deal with vegetarians who act morally superior.

In my opinion, as long as we don't exploit the other species and consume only what we need without wastage, it is okay.

Vegetarians take life too -- every bean and every grain of rice has a life in it and the cycle of life depends upon taking other life for one's survival.

(Unless of course one lives solely by eating roots and fruit)