Gesture: Revenge of the dead monkeys

Some animals mstyat for themselves even after death.Terribly, and pity!
Meat Bazaar in Liberville, Gabon.




Exotic cuisine of many countries in Africa and Asia enjoys a growing popularity in Europe.In European cities are now widely open restaurants, where the fabulous price offer tropical delights.Fried Worms, cockroaches under the Asian sauce, liver, blue sharks - not a full menu of such establishments.Tantalizing dishes considered to be the meat of monkeys.

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Hunters for primatami go deep into the jungles of Congo and Cameroon, where accidents kill animal carcasses and give them their bags.After a week of monkey flesh appears in the restaurants of Brussels, Paris or London. A particularly expensive dish is considered to be smoked monkey embryo.A thousand dollars worth in Brussels unborn chimpanzees.The price of one small raw steak from the animal on the black market reached 400 dollars.In London, there is a place where arranged in long queues to dealers selling from their vans meat of African animals.

At the Black continent mass culling anthropoid apes led to the number of three million has already been reduced to 200 thousand ...In the capital of Cameroon was open trade simian meat in food are also zebra, panthers and even gieny.A pair of young gorillas for sale for $ 200; particularly tasty considered their amputation of the hand.Generally, meat gorillas here love for his sweet taste, from preparing a very sharp soup, which is believed Cameroonians has magical properties and gives humans strength and resilience.

The primacy of rock Colobus satanas anthracinus prepare for hot, Gabon.



Hunters and traders earn this product great for local concepts, money, but even more revenue received buyers, the goods in Europe.Pygmies, who previously led separate lives, now sway over the edges of cities and hunting propivayut earned money.

In Europe, a growing concern: it together with the «spicy» meat, which does not pass any sanitary controls in the human body can get deadly pathogens.Forest dwellers take revenge for their barbaric destruction ...

Scientists say the hundreds of different viruses in the meat of chimpanzees, the most dangerous of them are like AIDS, but many times terrible!If mankind obrushatsya new epidemics are likely, they will come out of the jungle in Africa or South America ...at the restaurant table!

Together with the «spicy» meat in the human body can get deadly pathogens.



Scientists warn of the need for full and strict ban on the killing of monkeys, which by their genetic structure is so close to humans, that facilitated the transfer of diseases to the limit.A small chimpanzee genes at 99 percent identical to human, animals have the same emotions that we are able to laugh with joy and cry of grief.



Hunters in the chimpanzee tell that the monkeys when they send a barrel shotguns, understand that should happen, and signs implore them not to kill.But greed - a disease postrashnee AIDS ...

Clearly, eating a reasonable creatures is tantamount to cannibalism.




Alas, for Africans, gorillas and chimpanzees - the main meal, from which they can not refuse.

Clearly, eating a reasonable creatures is tantamount to cannibalism.




Eating anthropoid apes and even unethical in terms of Western man in the street

Hunting primates and the use of meat in food could lead to contamination of consumers one of the varieties of the virus carriers are monkeys, including anthropoid.

Зараженный Эбола в Конго. Infected Ebola in Congo.



Experts say that the consequences of contracting human simian foamy virus (simian foamy virus, SFV) is not yet known, however, feel that same way per person for the first time spread of HIV.In its publication in the magazine «Lancet» Scientists from the Johns Hopkins University warned: the only way to prevent the spread of the new virus - to restrict the use of meat of primates.



It is believed that the HIV pandemic two decades ago led to hunting and eating wild primates - gorillas and chimpanzees and other apes, which were carriers of monkey immunodeficiency virus (simian immunodeficiency virus, SIV).

Последние исследования проводились с привлечением 1800 жителей сельских общин Камеруна, 1100 из которых так во время охоты соприкасались с кровью приматов. Recent studies conducted since 1800 involving the rural communities of Cameroon, 1100 of them so during the hunting contact with the blood of primates. У десяти из них были обнаружены антитела на SFV. Ten of them were found antibodies to SFV. Дальнейшие генетические анализы показали, что заразились они не от одного животного. Further genetic testing revealed that they had not been infected from one animal.

Potential problems

«Our work has shown that retroviruses are actively perekidyvayutsya the human species - said lead researcher Dr. Nathan Wolfe.And also that people in central Africa already infected with SFV. »

Scientific adds that it is now possible emergence of the human variety SFV - under the same scenario, which is believed to biologists, SIV evolved into HIV.

A woman infected with AIDS. Конго. Congo.




«Contacts with other primates, which occur when hunting and handling of meat, may play a role in the emergence of human retroviruses, - said Dr. Wolfe.And reducing the hunting of primates can reduce outbreaks of emerging ».

Clearly, eating a reasonable creatures is tantamount to cannibalism.




A doctor Martin Peeters of the Institute for Research and Development of the French city of Montpellier, has warned that inter-(zoonotic) diseases - «one of the most important health problems from all that threaten humanity».

По ее словам, пенистые вирусы не связываются с какими бы то ни было болезнями у человека, и пока нет свидетельств того, что они могут передаваться от человека человеку. According to her, penistye viruses are not associated with any disease in humans, and there is no evidence that they can be spread from person to person. Однако, добавляет доктор Питерс, почти ничего не известно о том, какие последствия может иметь SVF для человека в перспективе, поскольку имеется очень мало документированных случаев заражения этим вирусом человека. However, adds Dr. Peters, almost nothing is known about what effects can be SVF for humans in perspective, since there are very few documented cases of human infection with the virus.

Так что, заключает она, нельзя исключать вероятности, что какие-то разновидности этого вируса могут вызывать болезни, возможно, после долгого инкубационного периода. So, is it not exclude the likelihood that some varieties of the virus can cause illness, possibly after a long incubation period.


Bushmeat Bushmeat - a term first used in campaigns EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquariums) for the conservation of wildlife in Africa (2000-2001,.); In the concept includes non-(wild) animals, from termites to elephants, used as food, often are subject to the uncontrolled production and trade.

In 2000, the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA) launched a campaign for the salvation of African animals.The campaign, aimed at drawing attention to the situation in Africa and the collection of funds for projects protecting the African animals, 1.9 million visitors of European zoos have signed a petition urging the European Union, through its Parliament and the Commission to adopt more stringent measures to protect large anthropoid apes and other large mammals exposed to destruction because of the availability of market demand for meat African animals.