Great Apes as Food

Great Apes as Food

This article talks about the love for great apes meat in Central Africa. Although some religions forbidden ape meat as food but others like to consume the meat and they actually prefer it from the other meats.

There are many reasons why central Africans like Consuming great apes as food other than the taste. In Some parts of central Africa people believe that eating Apes as food would bring strength and power that these great apes possess. Medicine plays a role in encouraging apes meat. Gorilla’s hands are used by athletes to make them stronger. Also the gorillas flesh is used to cure backache. even though there is enough beef or pork meat in the region, the market for ape meat is still high and people actually pay much higher prices to get chimpanzee meat.

Because of the founding of new hunting technologies the numbers of apes hunted are increasing every year . unfortunately because apes are so close to human they can transfer viruses easily, and many diseases are actually carried because of bushmeat.

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