http://www.bushmeat.org/
http://bushmeat.net/photos.html

I would suppose that since most people on VBs are vegans and vegetarians, they wouldn't eat primates...but isn't this gross? I understand that it is a cultural thing, but the idea of eating a primate really seems "wrong" in some way to me. And there are a lot of risks to the animals themselves.
I see that the people involved in these websites are very sensitive to the primates as far as their capacity for suffering is concerned, and I wonder if their opinions are the same regarding other farm animals.
I'm not really walking my talk here, but I thought this was interesting nontheless.

This is a dilemma because I think most people who eat bushmeat are too poor to afford any other kind of "meat", yet they are decimating primate populations because of it.

It's sad either way. :(

It's more than just gross... it's dangerous. There's a theory that HIV jumped the species boundary via bushmeat, and health workers and epidemiology experts are terrified of what might cross over next.

Actually, one of the major issues is less completely new diseases than new strains of HIV continuing to cross over. Apparently it's already happened numerous times, and will continue to happen until the bushmeat trade is curtailed.

Dominion told of story of some ship captain eating monkies and it was sooooo gross.

But all meat is gross.

It's more than just gross... it's dangerous. There's a theory that HIV jumped the species boundary via bushmeat, and health workers and epidemiology experts are terrified of what might cross over next.

That's downright scary. It just reminds you that things that are on the other side of the world might someday end up in your back yard and it's in your own best interests to care. Sadly, people don't seem to bother caring until it's already in the back yard and crawling through the kichen window. *sigh*