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This is just nonsense. Bush meat is a racist term concocted by European researchers. "Bush meat" is simply meat obtained by trapping or hunting, as opposed to
by vfclists 4y ago
This is just nonsense.
Bush meat is a racist term concocted by European researchers.
"Bush meat" is simply meat obtained by trapping or hunting, as opposed to farming.
When Europeans or Americans hunt boar, ducks, wild pigs, dear etc is it called "bush meat"?
And if he may have consumed bush meat, was the bush meat raw or cooked?
Did he handle the raw meat himself?
Was there an outbreak among the guests at the wedding?
Are weddings the only place bush meat is available in Nigeria?
The kind of idiotic speculation Europeans engage in when it comes to Africa is totally of the chain.
They make all kinds of outlandish claims knowing that they don't have to justify them because in Africa anything goes.
The guy caught monkey pox period. No need to add any outlandish speculations to it.
- Normille 4y agoIt must be really tiring for people who feel the need to spend their entire life policing the written and spoken words of others for signs of 'rayyy-cism' where none was intended. I bet you also get outraged if someone refers to a 'blackboard' instead of a 'chalkboard'.
- vfclists 4y agoThe bush meat angle is total nonsense. Did he claim to catch the animal live or handle the raw meat before it was cooked? It is only in that case where the "bush" meat angle makes sense.
- AvocadoPanic 4y agoNigerian national in Singapore with monkeypox. In this instance it's African and Asian speculation. Your bias is showing.
- vfclists 4y agoThere is no bias here. Any infection from meat would come from uncooked meat, or handling the infected meat before it was cooked as cooking would kill any germs in it. Is there some reason to believe that the meat he ate was uncooked? He said he "may" have eaten some "bush" meat, he didn't say he handled the uncooked meat or animal.
- tomatowurst 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat
- bigmealbigmeal 4y ago> When Europeans or Americans hunt boar, ducks, wild pigs, dear etc is it called "bush meat"? It'd be called "game meat" or "wild meat". "The bush" is a synonymous term for the wild, and has neutral connotations. > Bush meat is a racist term concocted by European researchers. This paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122066/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122066/ would suggest that it was just a neutral translation of what people in Cameroon were calling it. Likely just "meat from the wild", which the English would have neutrally called "meat from the bush".
- vfclists 4y agoBut why is the term "bush" used as though the means of obtaining it is different from what white people call game? Why isn't the appropriate translation used? The simple fact is it is a culturally loaded term suggesting that it is different and "unclean" in some way. It is no different from the term "wet market" used in China to describe live animals or freshly killed meat. Are the wholesale markets for fresh fish and fresh meat in Europe called wet markets?
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