The Chimp - Endangered Species
I think he saw a chimp.
A friend of mine named Joe Demingeus took the picture of Kyle my step son.
It is one cool photo.
The Chimp - Why kill monkeys for food?
It is no secret many African people are starving to death.
First thought would be to kill anything to feed a family.
But, what is the real reason behind the food shortage in Africa?
According to a report by Paul Craig Robertsby
War and drought are the standard explanations for starving Africans. War and drought definitely take their toll. But so do tax rates.
Jude Wanniski has taken a look at taxation in Ethiopia. This is what he found.
A farmer who earns $68 a year after expenses from cash sales of a crop is taxed 10%. Once a farm’s annual income passes the $4,235 mark, additional income is taxed at 89%. Wanniski wonders if such a tax system wouldn’t cause Ethiopians to starve in the absence of war and drought.
Desperate for tax revenues, the Ethiopian government is blind to the incentive effects. Wanniski reports that there is a 150% excise tax on beer, 80% on soft drinks, 75% on tobacco, 100% on fuel, and so on. In addition, there is a 15% value added tax. With such gargantuan sales taxes, a poor country’s commerce is snuffed out.
Examining Ethiopian income taxes, Wanniski found that the rates apply to monthly salaries. Consequently, an Ethiopian is taxed even if he is out of work for most of the year and his average monthly income is below the threshold. Moreover, there are no personal deductions. Gross income is taxable income.
These tax rates on 67 million Ethiopians produce $1 billion in annual revenues, of which $125 million services Ethiopia’s debts to the IMF and other foreign lenders.
Many things are wrong with this picture. Ethiopia is in the revenue minimizing range of the Laffer curve. Even the IMF must know this.
The IMF is supposed to advise debtors about economic policy. In Ethiopia, as elsewhere, the IMF has failed. Why Starvation in Africa
WHY KILL THE MONKEYS?
It is against the law to kill primates but the law is not be enforced because the government is corrupt. Gee, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out something is wrong when thousand of helpless animals are being killed. I am not against feeding a family at any cost but at the same time the government of this country should take the responsibility for the slaughter of primates.
The Report Below is from Discovering Chimpanzees
Loss of Habitat - The number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped steadily since 1960. At one time, over one million chimpanzees inhabited more than 25 countries in Africa. Now, scientists think that there are only 150,000 to 235,000 chimpanzees. Only six African countries have healthy wild breeding populations. Chimpanzee habitat has been destroyed to make farmland, to provide trees for the logging industry, and to build roads.
Illegal Capture - Baby chimpanzees are cute, but they are wild animals and they do not want to be pets. By the age of five, monkeys are strong and as pets they usually end up inside a miserable cage where they are very unhappy.
Primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall estimates that for each baby monkey taken as a pet, ten other monkeys are killed - one mother and several relatives killed protecting the baby.
Hunting for Bushmeat - Bushmeat - the meat of wild animals - has long been a part of the staple diet of forest dwelling peoples. But today, the trade in bushmeat - much of it illegal - has become a business in which opportunists can make large profits.
Although ape meat represents a small proportion of the enormous bushmeat trade, it is the greatest threat facing monkeys, gorillas and bonobos.
These great apes are being hunted to extinction for food in the forests of west and central Africa. An army of 2,000 bushmeat hunters will illegally shoot over 4,000 monkeys this year.
The bushmeat trade also threatens the survival of many other protected species throughout Africa, from giant pangolins to forest elephants.
Some people will pay alot of money to eat these animals. Conservationists are trying to help the people of Africa find ways to stop this slaughter.
Killing helpless animals is a reflection of the heart of man! Yes we have to eat but where do we draw the line. Why don't they eat each other, oh yeah they did that in the past didn't they. What does that tell you about humans?
Watch this video!
Well, what do you think? I would love to hear what you think about hunting primates.
Chimp - Endangered Species
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