ECOLOGY: ARE WE THE PROBLEM??

              Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University ecologist and writer states,
"The 'backbone' of biodiversity is being eroded. "One small step up the Red List is one giant leap forward towards extinction.
What can this mean to our meat eating culture? .
       Sadly, Our predatory ways are taking are taking a real toll on the vertebrates  who share the planet with us.
According to one important investigation:-
    Southeast Asia has experienced the most dramatic recent losses of vertebrates, largely driven by the planting of export crops like oil palm, commercial hardwood timber operations, agricultural conversion to rice paddies, and unsustainable hunting,
What exactly are Vertebrates?  
The dictionary says, " an animal with backbone: an animal with a segmented spinal column and a well-developed brain, e.g. a mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, or fish ."       
Yes! In consuming so much food in a brave but futile attempt to grow and stengthen their bulky frames, animals are causing their own demise.
    As a reult of this disturbing reseach, Mentor Monkey and My good self, at no expense to you, have enbarked on a program to help these dim witted animals by breeding cow and sheep fillets. These animals will not only eat less, but take up less pasture land. Brain is edible, so no attempt will be made at present to breed this out of these species. This would be less than humane.
        So there we have it. Bones and Brains are becoming scarce.
Animals have brains, but they are small. Too small to help them realise that their big bones are the problem. (We can not eat big bones)
In this, fish and small birds have the advantage, but bigger boned animals, (often human bred), are causing their own loss.
 Yes! In consuming so much food in a brave attempt to grow and stengthen their bulky frames they have caused their own demise.
    As a reult of this disturbing reseach, Mentor Monkey and My good self, at no expense to you, have enbarked on a program to produce cow and sheep fillets. These animals will not only eat less, but take up less pasture land. Brain is edible, so no attempt will be made at present to breed this out of these species. This would be less than humane.
           We are being helped in this valuable conservation work by programs such as the program to reintroduce the Kihansi spray toad, Nectophrynoides asperginis, back into the wild in Tanzania.
 These rare and endangered double decker frogs have been hunted to near extinction by uncaring and lazy farmers.  After being eaten, very few amphibians have yet shown signs of recovery.
     Undoubtably, the temptation to catch half the frogs for twice the amount of meat is great, but international efforts are escalating to re educate these lazy farmers, and to wean them onto cow and lamb fillets.
"We have to scale-up our efforts to match the unprecedented threats faced by the natural world," said Jonathan Baillie, Director of Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London", and we couldn't agree more.
          History has shown us that conservation can achieve the impossible, as anyone who knows the story of the white rhinoceros in southern Africa knows. These large boned animals were eating excessive amounts  of food in a futile attempt to grow and strengthen their bony parts. At our suggestion, the white rhinos were cross bread with boa constrictors, resulting in a longer and more colorful, but less self destructive animal.
    In another somewhat disturbing late news report, IUCN officials said,  "Conservation efforts have been particularly successful at combatting invasive alien species on islands"
Can this be true? Our greed and tolerance for boney animals has led to Alien Invasion.
Please help us in our fight to produce environmentally friendly deboned species before it is too late. 
 I remain your true and untiring servant:
                         FACTUAL KERRY.