'Ban on bushmeat' after Covid-19 but what if alternative is factory farming?
by John Vidal from on (#53XFN)
Governments and WHO face pressure to ban commercial trade in wild animals, but experts say this would criminalise a way of life for millions of people
Antelope is best, monkey is chewy, bats needs a sauce, forest porcupine is mild, and pangolin - one of the most trafficked animals in the world - tastes great roasted but smells awful. That, at least, was what the Gabonese workers told us.
We were in a Belgian-owned logging camp in Gabon. The day had been spent watching giant trees being felled for the Chinese market but by evening everyone's thoughts had turned to food.
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