{"id":27852,"date":"2016-05-17T22:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27852"},"modified":"2016-05-17T22:59:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:59:58","slug":"bush-meat-what-it-is-and-what-we-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/05\/bush-meat-what-it-is-and-what-we-can-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush meat what it is and what we can do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its everywhere<br \/>\nThe hunt is on<br \/>\n1 billion dollars around the world<br \/>\nPerhaps 5 million tonnes per year<br \/>\nWild animals it seems appear<\/p>\n<p>On the table<br \/>\nIts got to be<br \/>\nA vile exposure actually<\/p>\n<p>Elephants Gorillas the Chimpanzee<br \/>\nAll kinds of primates<br \/>\nIt seems to me<br \/>\nAntelopes and the crocodile<br \/>\nBush pigs pangolins<br \/>\nIts off the dial<br \/>\nPorcupine and guinea fowl<br \/>\nLizards cone rats<br \/>\nAll these entering someone&#8217;s<br \/>\nBowel<br \/>\nStolen from their habitat<br \/>\nAnd murdered its a tit for tat<\/p>\n<p>Hunters really everywhere<br \/>\nTrapping and killing<br \/>\nAll that despair<br \/>\nFamilies broken<br \/>\nVictims lost<br \/>\nIts coming at a fantastic cost<\/p>\n<p>In fifty years if this goes on<br \/>\nThere will be no wild souls<br \/>\nThey will all be gone<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lot money tO be made<br \/>\nAnd its on the many this is laid<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Nigeria the<br \/>\nCongo too<br \/>\nAnd many places  its there its true<br \/>\nLocals at it to supplement<br \/>\nand for businesses its heaven sent<\/p>\n<p>To loggers they have lots of cash<br \/>\nIts being sold everywhere<br \/>\nBy the flash<br \/>\nand criminal gangs<br \/>\nStill off the grid<br \/>\nBig money for someone to lift the lid<\/p>\n<p>Mining also brings people in<br \/>\nWith lots of money and such thick skin.<br \/>\nShort term workers here one day<br \/>\nAnd gone the other so they say<\/p>\n<p>Wild animal meat it seems to me<br \/>\nAttracts all sorts how that can be<br \/>\nThe advertising underground<br \/>\nHow it is healthier all around<\/p>\n<p>Primates clearly their DNA<br \/>\nSo close to ours we have to say<br \/>\nVirus and disease in tow<br \/>\nAIDS EBolA the risk does grow<\/p>\n<p>Clearly exports are also made<br \/>\nWhere ever there are Africans<br \/>\nIt is weighed under the counter<br \/>\nOn market stalls<br \/>\nTo people who like it yea and to fools<\/p>\n<p>Its seeing off animals everyday<br \/>\nAnd its  largely illegal but then they pay<br \/>\nThis one and that one to say no more<br \/>\nAnd so it enters by the back door<\/p>\n<p>Hunters here had best realise<br \/>\nThe trophy that is indeed their prize<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t eat the meat<br \/>\nJust stuff the head<br \/>\nAnd of course so many end up dead<\/p>\n<p>Its a damn good business for the cost<br \/>\nIs low<br \/>\nAll they do is bloody well go<br \/>\nInto the forest and shoot to kill<br \/>\nFill up their wagon and leave things still<\/p>\n<p>The locals they may look away<br \/>\nIf something is shared and they can say<br \/>\nIt was worth the risk and to watch them die<br \/>\nThe gorillas and crocs they can close an eye<\/p>\n<p>Just not see it and if asked say<br \/>\nYou must be joking not today<br \/>\nAll the diseases likely there<br \/>\nIt really isn&#8217;t worth a prayer<\/p>\n<p>And its smuggled abroad in logging bags<br \/>\nNot on manifests nothing flags<br \/>\nUp the shipments its all hush hush<br \/>\nTaken by people its in a rush<\/p>\n<p>Hunting  sickens me the trophy kind<br \/>\nAnd all this canned stuff blows my mind<br \/>\nAnd so called killing done for sport<br \/>\nIts done by those who have little thought<\/p>\n<p>For the animals or for that matter us<br \/>\nPsychopaths blood full of pus<br \/>\nThey are sicko&#8217;s rotten sods who must<br \/>\nBe stopped collectively it does disgust<\/p>\n<p>They are slaughtering animals in their prime<br \/>\nWith no thought at all of their precious time<br \/>\nWhat happens to their families and where they live<br \/>\nThoughtless ignorants that never give<\/p>\n<p>Even a thought for the biosphere<br \/>\nFor the equilibrium around here<br \/>\nAnd with habitats failing one by one<br \/>\nAnd encroachment well the day is done<\/p>\n<p>For so many animals and its a sin<br \/>\nMore weird sicknesses they begin<br \/>\nBecause of wild animals and how they eat<br \/>\nImmunity compromised on the street<\/p>\n<p>It has to be stopped all that hunting does<br \/>\nIs make true extinction closer the buzz<br \/>\nIs coming we hear it its with the chains saw<br \/>\nWhere bush meat is sold  and that is for sure<\/p>\n<p>Go to any market where africans are<br \/>\nAnd you can find bush meat<br \/>\nHowever far<br \/>\nAway from its source its bound to be there<br \/>\nExotic meats exporting despair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its 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