@YABBY;

"HIV can be spread in various ways. Eating chimps, as the population in Africa grows and grows, it seems is how it broke the species barrier and infected humans."

Thats so far from the truth, many many Africans don't eat chimps, its not the reason for AIDS !

Africa is a contient 52 plus countries.Asia which holds nations such as India,China Japan have far bigger individual populations than Africa,India & China populations are 1.2 to 1.3 billion each. So save me the breeding Africans over estimated stereotype.
52 plus countries not a billion people there.

"Thats so far from the truth, many many Africans don't eat chimps, its not the reason for AIDS !"

Amel, clearly you don't follow primatology news like I do, here is
just one link of many that has been in the press lately.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060525-aids-chimps.html

The bushmeat trade is basically a disaster in Africa, as forests
are emptied of anything that moves, for its meat value, chimps,
bonobos and gorillas included. Google the world "bushmeat" to
understand it further.

The question was always as to how HIV jumped the species barrier
and now the connection has been found in Cameroon. Once in the human population, it spread through blood transfusions, sex etc.

But still today, various primate body parts are openly sold in
African meat markets. Chimps, gorillas, bonobos and other species are all part of the African diet sadly. Perhaps only when these species are extinct, will they realise what they have lost.
Even the gorillas that people like Bill Gates paid big money to
see in their natural environment, were eventually shot for their
meat. All very sad really, what is happening in Africa.

Yabby

Your post is very interesting, and the link that you provided is quite an eye opener.

Cheers and thanks
Kay

The human race does should unite to praise the catholic faith for one of its most useful dogmas. The practice of priests and nuns being forbidden to breed, has meant that the catholic church has been for centuries genetically eradicating religious fanaticism.

Now the Vatican has come up with another great idea. Since condoms are a no no for good catholics, the AIDS virus is now doing it's bit to get rid of Africans who do not have the wit to avoid getting a Darwin Award, African Catholics are geting a bit thin on the ground. The Prots must be rubbing their hands in glee now that the catholics put dogma ahead of common sense, and are deliberately choosing to succumb en masse to a microbial life form which appears to have little respect for God or the teachings of the Pope.

That has always ben the problem for people who believe in moral absolutes. Along comes a problem which your exalted morality just can't handle. The more that you try to make it work by insisting that it is divinely inspired and therefore beyond reproach, the sillier you look.

@YABBY:

You fail to mention why theres a "bush meat crisis".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2944796.stm

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/03-04/sep27.html

"Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage." ~ Jacques Cousteau