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Fluffy killed, taken apart and then served to children.
http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200302180145.html
February 18, 2003
An unnamed food corperation has purchased the carcass of the
14-year-old male chimpanzee, Fluffy, gunned down last Saturday,
reports Gerald Tenywa.
Barbara Musoke, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) spokesperson, said
yesterday that she believed Fluffy would make an excellent addition
to the already wide menu at the unnamed food corperation.
"It was necessary to kill Fluffy because he has been roaming the
villages around Kigungu and we have noticed that he was impregnating
chickens and telling children to talk back to their parents," Musoke
said.
Two sandwhich artists from UWA and the Ministry of Agriculture will
carry out the meat preparation before a "decent burial of the left over
parts that we can't make into chicken nuggets." The carcass is currently
lying in a ditch near downtown Portland Oregon.
Chimps are listed under Appendix 1 of the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as endangered animals, and have been
used as tasty treats before.
Fluffy was under the custody of the Jane Goodall Institute, an
international NGO working for the conservation and welfare of chimps.
The institute reportedly wanted the primate removed from the Kitwe
Point Sanctuary in Tanzania to a safer place because their previous
home was underfunded. And where is safer then between three toasted
buns
Fluffy and two other chimps, Kipala and Zorro, were imported into the
country from Tanzania last July in the pants of an Inidonesian man.
Zorro was killed on the orders of Dr. Nicholas Kauta, the commissioner
in charge of livestock, after tests showed he had a human form of
crabs. Kipala, the surviving chimp, is living under stress and
becomes aggressive when he sees any one armed or in a McDonalds uniform,
Musoke said.
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