Our Relationship with Wild Animals
I was astonished to find myself agreeing with someone talking on the telly. He said something like-‘We are living in too close a proximity to wild animals.’. Once again the fault of Capitalism. The Capitalism that lays waste many natural habitats. So that the animals are forced into trying to survive in urban areas. There was a programme I once watched about it. Wild animals on the outskirts of a Durban I think . My point here is that who knows what medical issues could arise from more and more contact with wild animals and humans? Maybe another virus could ‘jump’ from them to us over time?
Allied -there’s a celeb news story at the moment. Joe ‘Exotic’ has said that his ex wife fed her ex husband to a tiger. Only in America as they say. They had a ‘private zoo’ together. Isn’t there something immensely shitty about a private individual being allowed to have a tiger?I dont think private individuals shoukd be allowed to keep wild animals at all. Wild animals should be er…in the wild.
I’ve got to say even though it seems harmless I don’t like people who keep snakes or lizards as pets. Couldn’t there be risks to human health because of it? Couldn’t another ‘virus’ jump that we didn’t know about?
This Coronavirus emergency is making me jumpy I expect but I just feel there could be dangers.
The Chinese. In fact all South East Asia. You know they drug little tepiles and send them by post to Australia. In the hope some will revive after the journey. I suppose the recients consider themselves ‘animal lovers’. Is it just to have something exotic?
We must respect a nation’s customs. But how in the hell did Rhino horn become such a prized aphrodisiac in China? There are no rhinos in China.
The trouble with it of course to get the horn it you have to kill the Rhino.
In my research for this (quick look on Wikipedia) I read of some South American tribe that have had their land confiscated by some capitalist endeavour. And they are now reduced to capturing baby monkeys from the jungle to sell on. Again isn’t there a risk to human health in this trade?
Nominated by Miles Plastic




