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Kirkie · 08-05-2009, 09:05 PM

Hi Anna,

EJ's original post contained the quote "(tiger organs, elephant tusks, rhino horns) " so these animals are in fact used not for food (which would be considered useful) but for trinkets and supply to the chinese medicine market. There is also a huge market for "bush meat", a trade which in its illegal form saw the reduction of the Congo gorilla population from 11,000 to a mere 3,000 during the course of the civil war in the Congo (now the Demcratic republic of Congo).

Its typical that the farming of these animals for our use is having to be considered as a way of "saving" them when the human desire for them has led to their near extinction in the first place.

Time and time again people will say you can't change cultures. What you can't change is human nature, we are plunderers and killers, thats what makes us so sucessful as a species.

08-05-2009, 09:05 PM	#8
Kirkie Senior Member Adult Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4,887	Hi Anna, EJ's original post contained the quote "(tiger organs, elephant tusks, rhino horns) " so these animals are in fact used not for food (which would be considered useful) but for trinkets and supply to the chinese medicine market. There is also a huge market for "bush meat", a trade which in its illegal form saw the reduction of the Congo gorilla population from 11,000 to a mere 3,000 during the course of the civil war in the Congo (now the Demcratic republic of Congo). Its typical that the farming of these animals for our use is having to be considered as a way of "saving" them when the human desire for them has led to their near extinction in the first place. Time and time again people will say you can't change cultures. What you can't change is human nature, we are plunderers and killers, thats what makes us so sucessful as a species. Last edited by Kirkie; 08-05-2009 at 09:08 PM.