Who's Eating Lemurs?

[Lemur]

This is grave, grave news (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/south-africa/091018/madagascars-natural-resources-pillaged-amid-political-chaos). I blame Beirut.


Would you eat this lemur?

Madagascar's rare primates are illegally hunted and sold for their meat.

[I]llegal loggers are hunting Madagascar’s iconic lemurs for for their meat. The problems are compounded by the island's chronic poverty that forces many to join the pillagers just to put food on the table. [...]

Observers say loggers regularly hunt lemurs for meat while they work in the forests, and the lemurs, primates that are unique to Madagascar, have also been sold to restaurants.

“What is happening to the biodiversity of Madagascar is truly appalling, and the slaughter (of) these delightful, gentle, and unique animals is simply unacceptable,” said Russ Mittermeier, Conservation International’s president and a renowned lemur expert. “These poachers are killing the goose that laid the golden egg, wiping out the very animals that people most want to see, and undercutting the country and especially local communities by robbing them of future ecotourism revenue.”

Who knew that the natural enemy of the noble lemur was the seedy, smelly, unshaven lumberjack?

[Cronos Impera]

Yes, I say have the Lemurs join the Camel association.Probably the Horses are aligned with the Aye-Aye on this matter.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

“What is happening to the biodiversity of Madagascar is truly appalling, and the slaughter (of) these delightful, gentle, and unique animals is simply unacceptable,” said Russ Mittermeier, Conservation International’s president and a renowned lemur expert.

In contrast, the villagers in chronic poverty who have trouble putting food on the table are getting what they deserve. ~:rolleyes:

[A Very Super Market]

I blame the French.

[Beskar]

Feed a family, they got fed for a day, teach them how to nab a Lemur, and they get fed for a life-time.

If it means anything, you will be surely missed, Lemur.

[Thermal]

I blame Argentinians :shame:

[Centurion1]

i advise you remain far far far away from southeast asia lemur. im sure you would be a record placing trophy kill

[Vuk]

*crosses fingers*
~;)

[Samurai Waki]

This is an outrage! We must forcefully eject the people of Madagascar to some smelly, treeless, continental country like Malawi. We should also arm the lemurs...

[Megas Methuselah]

If I were hungry, I'd slaughter an ugly beast to feed my family. :evilgrin:

[miotas]

Meth, I am shocked. I thought you of all people would side with the oppressed natives who are being slaughtered.

[Vladimir]

:laugh4:

Don't they know the disease those things spread? I nested that in a reply to one of your posts, say, three weeks ago. :2thumbsup:

[Fragony]

I really don't care what they do with it as long as it's dead

[Reverend Joe]

:laugh4:

Don't they know the disease those things spread? I nested that in a reply to one of your posts, say, three weeks ago. :2thumbsup:

No kidding... (http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/funding/200810/lemur-disease-ecology-linking-health-ecosystem-viability-and-conservation-in-madagascar)


Researchers have documented cases of malaria, West Nile Virus, E. coli, and Toxoplasmosis within lemur populations; all of these diseases could potentially be transferred among human, domestic, and wildlife hosts.

This is disgusting. If it weren't for the fact that people are eating them because they are starving, I would have no respect for someone who eats a lemur or other primate; I definitely am disgusted by the tourists and other well-to-do people who are apparently eating them for the hell of it. That's just nasty.

[Papewaio]

So, does any nation take responsibility for being overpopulated?

Largest fauna get hunted to extinction first, the only exception is farm raised meat which flourishes.

So the solution is to farm lemurs...

[Gregoshi]

Lemur, what do you taste like? Chicken? :chef:

[Papewaio]

"Researchers have documented cases of malaria, West Nile Virus, E. coli, and Toxoplasmosis within lemur populations; all of these diseases could potentially be transferred among human, domestic, and wildlife hosts."

Plus Lemurs Disease... which is worrying since one of the first signs of Lemurs Disease is forgetfulness. Or at least I think it was... what was I talking about again?

[Samurai Waki]

gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the Lemur Effect.

Soon the Australians will be eating marsupials... oh wait they already do.

Soon the Japanese will be eating whales...

Soon the... I give up.

Surprised it took this long, really.

[Papewaio]

Australia... where we eat even our coat of arms (Kangaroo and Emu).

[Kadagar_AV]

Reading this I am glad I am vegetarian :)

I'm probably the only one who can leave this thread with my head held high ;)

[Mooks]

Reading this I am glad I am vegetarian :)

I'm probably the only one who can leave this thread with my head held high ;)

When I was 12 years old, I nursed a baby cottontail rabbit back to health when its mother apparently abandoned her. I used to keep the rabbit in my fenced in part of my backyard sometimes, then let it go whenever it looked bored to go play with its rabbit friends and it came back for food/petting. This has nothing to do with lemurs, but just know that someone else here is leaving this thread with that arragont hippy feeling inside.

[Cute Wolf]

That's quite ironic there, at least they should make a lemur farm, and breed them for pets and delicacy, and forbid wild-born lemur to be hunt and eaten.... that's a win-win solution. If they want to eat that lemur, they should breed it.

Oh yeah, southeast asia version of lemur sold here at 10 dollars!

[Beskar]

Reading this I am glad I am vegetarian :)

I'm probably the only one who can leave this thread with my head held high ;)

I am here with a steak. I win.

[Fragony]

I support 4 family's, pay 2 study's, few hundreds every month that's ok I don't care

[Thermal]

Lemur, what do you taste like? Chicken? :chef:

It doesn't matter what it is people always say chicken... :speechless:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

"He never says anything tastes like chicken, even chicken. He is...the most interesting man in the world."

[Gregoshi]

"He never says anything tastes like chicken, even chicken. He is...the most interesting man in the world."
And unfortunately, he knows it. :thumbsdown:

[drone]

Stay hungry my friends.