TZANEEN: Having a vervet for breakfast is legal
'There is no law in prohibiting anyone to eat any animal, as long as..."
A concerned resident alerted Letaba Herald this morning of a “homeless man” that is busy braaing himself something which is believed to be a vervet monkey.
The man could not understand English, but had no problem in the Herald taking a picture of him whilst waiting for his ‘breakfast’ to be grilled to perfection.
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Upon asking why he is braaing the monkey, he just gestured with his right hand, mimicking holding a knife, then sliced on his left arm, suggesting that he is going to carve it and then eat it.
Ellie Potgieter from the Letaba SPCA said to Letaba Herald that their is no law in prohibiting anyone in eating any animal.
‘A person may eat any animal. It is the same as if you would go and shoot an antelope. If a person is hungry, and the animal is killed in a humane way, there is nothing the SPCAÂ can do to lay charges. As long as the animal is not killed and commercially sold to gain profit out of it,’ Potgieter told the Herald.
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Assuming the vervet was killed by a car, isn’t it better to see the meat getting utilised?
