Ăn động vật cười và những lời lăng mạ, các mối quan tâm ẩn và thậm chí xem xét đánh giá đạo đức. Bốn loài khỉ phi nhân văn, thân nhân gần nhất của chúng tôi, gương khuôn mặt và cơ thể chúng ta, bàn tay và các ngón tay của chúng tôi, móng tay và dấu vân tay của chúng tôi. | To Eat the Laughing Animal and insults of hidden concerns and even considered ethical assessments. The four nonhuman apes our closest relatives mirror our faces and bodies our hands and fingers our fingernails and fingerprints. They make and use tools are capable of long-term planning and deliberate deception. They seem to share our perceptual world. They appear to express something very much like the human repertoire of emotions. They look into a mirror and act as if they recognize themselves as individuals are manifestly capable of learning symbolic language share with us several recognizable expressions and gestures - and they laugh in situations that might cause us to laugh too. So people living in the Western tradition have recently come to accept to a significant degree a special bridge of kinship between apes and humans or to understand that from the professional biologist s point of view humans are actually a fifth member of the ape group . Perhaps it is because of this recent cultural perception that Westerners are sometimes particularly surprised to learn that the three African apes - chimpanzees bonobos and gorillas - have long been a food source for many people living in Central Africa s Congo Basin a largely forested region claimed by the nations of Cameroon Central African Republic Congo Democratic Republic of Congo Equatorial Guinea and Gabon . The fact however should surprise no one. Around the globe people living in or on the edges of the world s great forests have traditionally taken the protein offered by wild animals as true in Asia Europe and the Americas as it is in Africa. Moreover the exploitation of wild forest animals for food is really no different from the widespread reliance on seafood commonly accepted around the world. But the African tropical forests are particularly rich in variety and have provided Central Africans with a very diverse wealth of game species - collectively known as bushmeat - consumed within a very complex milieu of
