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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on July 22, 2015, 06:04:07 PM
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The thing was already dead. But they did not want the people to eat it. Is it to prevent them from developing a taste for the meat?
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Hippos look like water mammals like whales. It may have bilharzia.
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Hippos look like water mammals like whales. It may have bilharzia.
Can't they test it for that and let the people feast?
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I think it's illegal to eat hippo meat.
Hippos are still eaten in their native West Africa, even though poaching and war have decimated the population. Poachers, many of whom are current or ex-militiamen, use rocket launchers, machine guns, and even dynamite to kill the hippos. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the sale of the meat is illegal, commanding high prices in village markets and turning a tidy profit for the poachers.
But hippos can be as deadly dead as they are alive. In 2011, 500 people in Zambia were infected with anthrax after eating tainted hippo meat. In 2004, four people in western Uganda died after eating a hippo that “died of a strange disease.”
The problem is verifying the safety of a wild hippo for consumption, no matter where it lives. Just as New York state officials didn’t have a plan in place to test and cook the hundreds of wild geese it exterminated in 2010—a number of people wanted the meat donated to a food bank to feed the homeless—the cost associated with green lighting wild meat might outweigh the benefits of feeding hungry
http://munchies.vice.com/articles/theres-a-possible-upside-to-eating-pablo-escobars-hippos