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Eating apes

Author: Dale Peterson; Karl Ammann
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series: California studies in food and culture, 6.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dale Peterson; Karl Ammann
ISBN: 0520230906 9780520230903
OCLC Number: 50079919
Description: ix, 320 p., 16 p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Laughter -- Beginnings -- Death -- Flesh -- Blood -- Business -- Denial -- A story -- History.
Series Title: California studies in food and culture, 6.
Responsibility: Dale Peterson ; with an afterword and photographs by Karl Ammann ; foreword by Janet K. Museveni.
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Abstract:

Details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in Central Africa has suddenly exploded in scope and impact, moving from what was recently a subsistence activity to an enormous and completely unsustainable commercial enterprise. Although the three African great apes account for only about one percent of the commercial bush meat trade, today's rate of slaughter could bring about their extinction in the next few decades. Eating Apes documents the when, where, how, and why of this rapidly accelerating disaster. In bringing the facts of this crisis and these impending extinctions into a single, accessible book, Peterson takes us one step closer to averting one of the most disturbing threats to our closest relatives.--From publisher description.

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