Here’s a fact about that hamburger patty on your Maccy D’s burger: it does not come from a singular cow named Bessie. Instead, the likelihood of her meat, along with 20 other of her friends all ground up together and pressed into a patty is pretty strong. There’s also the possibility that the butcher might have used 13 cow parts and seven other parts consisting of cats, dogs, rats or whatever was cheapest on the black market that morning. You just never know.

It came to light recently that chimpanzee meat is for sale in restaurants and market stalls in Britain. You know how they always say South Africa is a third world country? Imagine what we’re eating down here if chimps made it onto the plates of patrons in Great Britain. I’m not saying that is what you’ll be eating the next time you order a burger, and if you buy at well-known fast food chains and restaurants, you should be fine. But I’d steer clear of dodgy little restaurants down dirty alleyways, if you catch my drift.

Trading standards officials in the UK uncovered the illegal bushmeat from the endangered species whilst testing samples believed to be seized from meat vendors. The meat, which can cost more than R250 a kilogram, is part of a lucrative black market trade that experts describe as ‘rife’ in Europe. Last year, the first research on the import of bushmeat into Europe found “over 270 tonnes passing through the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris alone.”

Apart from the obvious problem people have with eating chimps, imported meat from them could be carrying infectious diseases such as foot-and-mouth, anthrax, the Ebola virus, TB or cholera into the country they are smuggled into.

[Source: Mail Online]