REJECTION OF PROPOSED BABOON ABATTOIR

We, the undersigned, totally reject the proposal to set up a baboon slaughterhouse on the following grounds:

  1. Baboons are very closely related to our species and to promote their wholesale slaughter is as objectionable as cannibalism.
  2. The pressure this will place on the baboon population could lead to their rapid endangerment and ultimate extinction.
  3. There is a high risk of lethal diseases being passed on to humans through the consumption of a closely-related species' meat.

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Vincent Khoza(vincentkhoza@hotmail.com)why should they kill the baboons when they have such a close resemblance to man.
- Monday September 12, 2005 at 10:56:15
Paul Figueiras(planetvegan@hotmail.com)The slaughter or torture of even one animal is atrocious in itself, but, to purposely create a mechanism for the wholesale slaughter of sentient beings is genocidal.
- Thursday April 28, 2005 at 18:46:05
Paul Figueiras(planetvegan@hotmail.com)The slaughter or torture of even one animal is atrocious in itself, but, to purposely create a mechanism for the wholesale slaughter of sentient beings is genocidal.
- Thursday April 28, 2005 at 18:45:53
Paul Figueiras(planetvegan@hotmail.com)The slaughter or torture of even one animal is atrocious in itself, but, to purposely create a mechanism for the wholesale slaughter of sentient beings is genocidal.
- Thursday April 28, 2005 at 18:45:37
Hazel Cohn(africandreamer2@hotmail.com)We should be called human-cruel, not humankind.

- Monday April 11, 2005 at 01:47:45
Hazel Cohn(africandreamer2@hotmail.com)We should be called human-cruel not humankind.

- Monday April 11, 2005 at 01:46:14
Hazel Cohn(africandreamer2@hotmail.com)We should be called human-cruel not humankind.

- Monday April 11, 2005 at 01:45:57
Hazel Cohn(africandreamer2@hotmail.com)We should be called human-cruel not humankind.
- Monday April 11, 2005 at 01:45:08
childakapoet(childakapoet@yahoo.com)Cruel. Cruelty. In a word, the most devestating
- Friday April 8, 2005 at 12:11:45
childakapoet(childakapoet@yahoo.com)Cruel. Cruelty. In a word, the most devestating
- Friday April 8, 2005 at 12:10:43
Maritza(mtrengrove@momentum.co.za)Cruel. Cruelty. In a word, the most devestating composure to eliminate animals.. thanks to humans who seem to not even have the closest regard or compassion towards what God created for us to protect.. Ironic.. isn't it? Makes you wonder what will be said or used as an excuse when the time comes to reconcile.
- Monday April 4, 2005 at 10:10:01
Maritza(mtrengrove@momentum.co.za)Cruel. Cruelty. In a word, the most devestating composure to eliminate animals.. thanks to humans who seem to not even have the closest regard or compassion towards what God created for us to protect.. Ironic.. isn't it? Makes you wonder what will be said or used as an excuse when the time comes to reconcile.
- Monday April 4, 2005 at 10:09:49
mugu(mugu@yahoo.com,mugu@hotmail.com)fukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu


fuck uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu mugu
- Friday February 25, 2005 at 12:23:26
mugu(mugu@mugu.com)fukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu


fuck uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu mugu
- Friday February 25, 2005 at 12:18:03
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- Wednesday September 8, 2004 at 22:00:51
SUSIE (suiseb1974@yahoo.com)Live and Let Live.!!! This is cruel and pointless!
- Saturday August 28, 2004 at 02:39:44
Thomas Newman(skunkworks.ent@dccnet.com)This is sick and stupid to even consider!
- Monday February 24, 2003 at 00:49:37
greg papas(pousti@yourmom.cum)kill the vokers and drink their anal sacks
- Friday February 14, 2003 at 18:50:06
Julia Green(julia@it-industries.com)
- Monday January 27, 2003 at 18:36:38
Pieter Pieletjies(whatever@wherever.com)o VOk as ek moet bobbejaan vleis vreet... ek sê jou hierdie land is besig om LELIK die kat aan die gat beet te kry...
- Saturday November 16, 2002 at 23:43:21
Heila Hitchcock(info@pawtal.za.net)The people in South Africa today are driven by greed.As long as there is money to be made,nothing will stand in their way.Animals are first on the list because they cannot fight back.The sad thing is,nobody give a damn.It is us,a handfull of people that care, and one day will change the way that all animals are being treated.With respect ,love and compassion.The inhumane treatment of all animals must stop now.
- Sunday September 15, 2002 at 20:28:59
Dineho Msareri(dmsareri@charterlife.co.za)I'truly disapprove that,no slaughterhouse for baboons.Its like killing your own grand.If its for the good of the nation let us know cause every act has the reason.
- Tuesday September 3, 2002 at 08:28:58
Dineho Msareri(dmsareri@charterlife.co.za)I'truly disapprove that,no slaughterhouse for baboons.Its like killing your own grand.If its for the good of the nation let us know cause every act has the reason.
- Tuesday September 3, 2002 at 08:28:36
Dineho Msareri(dmsareri@charterlife.co.za)I'truly disapprove that,no slaughterhouse for baboons.Its like killing your own grand.If its for the good of the nation let us know cause every act has the reason.
- Tuesday September 3, 2002 at 08:28:17
Samantha Durrant(Thumbprint@bdmail.co.za)Pathetic! Put yourself in there
- Monday July 22, 2002 at 13:58:38
sarah harrison(sezh222@yahoo.com.au)THIS IS TERRIBLE! I THINK THAT WE SHOULD STOP ABBATTOIRS OF ANY KIND!
- Sunday July 7, 2002 at 20:29:07
sarah harrison(sezh222@yahoo.com.au)i think that the idea of an abbattior of anny kind, even for cattle, is inhumane and terrible!!! it is unnatural and very cruel!
- Sunday July 7, 2002 at 20:25:54
igor(igor@elvagabundo.org)
- Monday June 10, 2002 at 22:59:10
igor(igor@elvagabundo.org)
- Monday June 10, 2002 at 22:58:45
leeann(leeann@ananzi.co.za)rediculous
- Saturday June 1, 2002 at 16:08:44
leeann(leeann@ananzi.co.za)rediculous
- Saturday June 1, 2002 at 16:07:55
leeann(leeann@ananzi.co.za)rediculous
- Saturday June 1, 2002 at 16:06:53
andrea lloyd(foxglove28@aol.com)please,please,please stop this slaughter of
these wonderful creatures.
- Tuesday May 21, 2002 at 21:32:54
Lindie van der Westhuizen(lindievdw@hotmail .com)What about a human abattoir? There are more bad natured humans than baboons...
- Thursday July 12, 2001 at 16:00:45
Shirley van Lelyveld(shirlvet@aol.com)I am strongly opposed to this, both from an animal welfare point of view and a human health standpoint. Surely veterinary public health authorities should move in to veto any such abattoir???
- Thursday June 7, 2001 at 19:42:36
Joanita Floyd(joanita.floyd@eskom.co.za)As a animal lover this really hurts to know that there are humans like me out there that would even think of this - why always kill - God would never approve - neither do I.
I believe : " The wheel turns" !!!
- Wednesday April 25, 2001 at 11:03:31
joanita floyd(joanita.floyd)
- Wednesday April 25, 2001 at 10:58:59
Lesley Mocke(homefinders@freemail.absa.co.za)
- Tuesday February 27, 2001 at 22:42:45
Lesley Mocke(homefinders@freemail.absa.co.za)Who would propose such an idea, print their names,we want to know who they are. Disgusting people
- Tuesday February 27, 2001 at 22:40:07
leon clingman(leonclingman@yahoo.com)
- Wednesday February 7, 2001 at 11:02:50
Linda Howard(lindajhoward@earthlink.net)Until the South African government firmly --and completely -- rejects this sadistic proposal for a baboon abattoir, I will continue to request that my collegues in the United States who are concerned with animal protection issues boycott South Africa.
- Thursday December 28, 2000 at 14:44:12
Linda Howard(lindajhoward@earthlink.net)Until the South African government firmly --and completely -- rejects this sadistic proposal for a baboon abattoir, I will continue to request that my collegues in the United States who are concerned with animal protection issues boycott South Africa.
- Thursday December 28, 2000 at 14:43:47
Lindi Bouwer(lindibouwer@hotmail.com)
- Wednesday December 27, 2000 at 09:19:53
Lindi Bouwer(lindibouwer@hotmail.com)
- Wednesday December 27, 2000 at 09:19:34
Jean Cantieni(cantienij@aol.com)I am an animal rights supporter...these animals should NOT be subject to routine slaughter for purposes of consumption...it is cannibalistic to do so....
- Monday December 11, 2000 at 21:58:16
Stephan Smith(stephan@smourt.fsnet.co.uk)
- Sunday December 10, 2000 at 06:37:00
Stephan Smith(stephan@smourt.fsnet.co.uk)
- Sunday December 10, 2000 at 06:33:24
Jane Di Fava(jdifava@camtech.net.au)
- Saturday November 11, 2000 at 14:21:41
Angela simpson(Ang81@hotmail.com)
- Monday October 23, 2000 at 19:14:43
Angela simpson(Ang81@hotmail.com)
- Monday October 23, 2000 at 19:14:35
Mbulelo Dopolo(mdopolo@hotmail.com)Well I partly support the rejection of baboon abattoir, in that they might be subjected to extinction
however, I'm wondering if the baboon meat might not contain significant pigments nor
substances that could be of vital benefit to over come certain deases that are
incurable to humans. SoI wuold rather suggest a further research on this subject to bach up
our rejection in more definite manner.
- Monday October 23, 2000 at 16:47:43
Stephen James Beaumont(visualman@netzero.net)I think the very idea is so disgusting that I can't believe a so called intelligent human being ever thought of it.
- Sunday October 15, 2000 at 11:15:38
vicky blainey(v.blainey@talk21.com)I AGREE TOTALLY WITH THE GROUNDS FOR REJECTING THIS IDEA.
- Saturday August 12, 2000 at 09:32:57
vicky blainey(v.blainey@talk21.com)I AGREE TOTALLY WITH THE GROUNDS FOR REJECTING THIS IDEA.
- Saturday August 12, 2000 at 09:32:36
Cristina Martinez Zavalia(zavacriss@yahoo.com)I support this cause and any cause that has to do with the protection of animals and plants in our planet.
- Wednesday July 19, 2000 at 02:47:39
Cristina Zavalia(zavacriss@yahoo.com)I support this cause and any cause that has to do with the protection of animals and plants in our planet.
- Wednesday July 19, 2000 at 02:45:52
Kristen Massey(Aussie334@aol.com)Sickening. I cannot believe such things are happening to these precious primates.
- Tuesday September 14, 1999 at 09:59:32
silvia Grandio Luque(silviag@ctv.es)
- Wednesday September 8, 1999 at 23:32:13
Lin Yelton(lin1234@hotmail.com)Is the threat of a baboon population explosion really a reason for killing them for human consumption? I think not. Once again, man's greed for money is the primary motivator.

The baboon population growth is spurred by two likely factors: availability of food for scavenging in areas where humans have taken over baboon habitat, and fewer baboon predators owing to poaching and diminishing habitats. We humans are largely responsible for the breakdown of the food chain. And now we are tampering again with nature by killing the baboons?

The farming of chicken, pigs etc are cruel enough. There is no way baboons can be culled for meat without immense cruelty. Please ban this proposal!
- Wednesday August 4, 1999 at 10:24:43
LESLEY(cram@iafrica.com)IN 1854 CHIEF SEATTLE ASKED AS THE INDIAN TRIBES WERE PREPARING TO SIGN SWAY THEIR LAND TO THE WHITE MAN - UNDER DURESS "WHAT IS MAN WITHOUT THE BEASTS? IF ALL THE BEASTS WERE GONE MAN WOULD DIE FROM A GREAT LONLINESS OF SPIRIT. FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THE BEASTS, SOON HAPPENS TO MAN. ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED."
WHY IS IT THAT "MAN" IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE BARBARIC AS TIME GOES BY. IF WE CONTINUE ON THIS TERRIBLE DESTRUCTIVE ROAD, THEN WE DESERVE ALL THE BAD THINGS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE IN THIS WORLD.
- Tuesday July 27, 1999 at 14:17:17
LESLEY(cram@iafrica.com)IN 1854 CHIEF SEATTLE ASKED AS THE INDIAN TRIBES WERE PREPARING TO SIGN SWAY THEIR LAND TO THE WHITE MAN - UNDER DURESS "WHAT IS MAN WITHOUT THE BEASTS? IF ALL THE BEASTS WERE GONE MAN WOULD DIE FROM A GREAT LONLINESS OF SPIRIT. FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THE BEASTS, SOON HAPPENS TO MAN. ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED."
WHY IS IT THAT "MAN" IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE BARBARIC AS TIME GOES BY. IF WE CONTINUE ON THIS TERRIBLE DESTRUCTIVE ROAD, THEN WE DESERVE ALL THE BAD THINGS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE IN THIS WORLD.
- Tuesday July 27, 1999 at 14:17:12
Catherine Broek(cjb@fast.co.za)
- Monday July 26, 1999 at 20:49:50
Jimmy Ramsden(capemoto@iafrica.com)
- Monday July 26, 1999 at 20:48:31
Rachel Ramsden(capemoto@iafrica.com)
- Monday July 26, 1999 at 20:47:55
Michelle du Toit(mic5251@yahoo.com)
- Monday July 26, 1999 at 18:59:54
Richard Olds(song@iafrica.com)
- Saturday July 24, 1999 at 18:48:33
Louise du Toit(song@iafrica.com)
- Saturday July 24, 1999 at 18:47:28
Joanne Thomason(joanne@match.co.za)
- Thursday July 22, 1999 at 12:29:09
Rochelle(rochelle@icon.co.za)I think the human race has finaly gone mad!!
Why dont they slaughter murderers and rapists and leave poor innocent animals alone!!!!

- Thursday July 22, 1999 at 08:17:29
Penni Kieck(compass@csurf.co.za)Stop this disgusting idea before it can be started.
Who are we kidding when start to mess around with God's
planet, and his animals.. No I am not a vegetarian, but
if I have to be... I will.
- Monday July 19, 1999 at 12:50:28
Karen Leather(blondee@satcom.net.au)I have come to the conclusion, that, man will not be happy until he is the only living being left on this earth!!
Well, don't include me in this agenda.
Yes, I eat meat....But I don't have to, and if it means a complete turn around for me...
so be it. I truely believe we are related to our primates...therefore, wouldn't this seen as an act of "Cannibalism????" Grow up.
There are plenty of other things to eat in this world than poor defenceless monkey's!
What will be next.....Our children, Oh, Yeah!! They'd look real good on a spit!!!
- Sunday July 18, 1999 at 23:39:21
mandy hillcoat(jab@mweb.co.za)While we still have animals, we owe it to them to protect them. The way we're going,
they'll soon all be extinct (at least then we won't be able to hurt them anymore).
- Sunday July 18, 1999 at 09:52:33
john boyer(jab@mweb.co.za)STOP THIS NOW. OF COURSE ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS. DO HUMANS? AS WE HEAD FOR 2000,
WE SEEM TO BE MORE BACKWARD THAN EVER.
- Sunday July 18, 1999 at 09:49:16
deborah bradley(deborahbradley@hotmail.com)The next you know there will be a huge question on how the baboon's became extinct and what lead to there rapid endangerment.
Man gives himself order of how he shall behave and he justify's his own works!!!!!
I think humanity is very disturbed and needs to be slaughtered, the day of judgement will come where the wrath of God will be on us all, so beware of your decisions and dont try justify evil your's or others.
- Saturday July 17, 1999 at 20:45:46
Titania van schalkwyk(tvs@uskonet.com)Please do not do such an unnatural cruel act, the repurcussions will be huge and is the money to be made REALLY worth that?
- Saturday July 17, 1999 at 17:07:03
Rhoneil (idlegossip@yahoo.com)
- Friday July 16, 1999 at 22:34:47
Joanne Buys(J.Buys@fac.lon.ac.uk)I think this is a discusting act, as Baboons are part of our Wildlife that we are suposed to protect .

- Friday July 16, 1999 at 17:54:26
Francoise van Es(francoise.vanes@dns.co.za)
- Friday July 16, 1999 at 14:32:51
Raxa Kansara(kansar2R@wcc.govt.nz)I cannot believe they are even considering this. I can only stress that eating animals so closely related species such as Baboons could follow in the same line as humans eating Chimpanzees, leading to an epidemic in humans of AIDS.
- Thursday July 15, 1999 at 11:46:47
Jodi Fyfe(jfyfe@medicine.uct.ac.za)
- Wednesday July 14, 1999 at 09:07:13
Monika Roediger(tanikar@iafrica.com)This is absolutely outrageuos. How can this even be considered.
- Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 21:56:10
Belinda Sage(belindasage@hotmail.com)WHAT! Are you all losing your minds? How can there be a Market out there
for Baboon meat? And how could anyone honestly eat this meat without thinking
of that amazing and Intelligent animal that we are supposed to have evolved from!
They are beautiful creatures - please stop this outrage!


- Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 18:04:02
Marlei Martins(marlei@houtbay.com)How absolutely disgusting ! Man never ceases to disgust me more and more each day. Baboon DNA is so closely linked to ours that we might as well condone eating our next door neighbour when food becomes scarce - you won't even have to pay for it because we know that in this country one CAN get away with murder...there's a point - if it's called MURDER when we kill each other, wouldn't it be akin to murder killing a sentient being that resembles all the better aspects of man?
Those who thought of this abhorrent idea - I feel sorry for you for not realising the value of all other life on this planet - you will be sorry, but by that time you'll have f***** it up for the rest of us !
- Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 16:44:41
Tania Beale(taniab@is.co.za)
- Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 11:27:42
Tertia Thackwray(Tertia. Thackwray@Eskom.co.za)People slaughter horses and donkeys for meat now this! What is the world comming to??
- Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 11:16:40
Louie Human(louieh@ihd.com)
- Monday July 12, 1999 at 23:19:51
Dee Byrne-Daly(byrnedalyd@SCMB.co.za)Once again man's greed and inhumanity to animals is highlighted. This must not happen
- Monday July 12, 1999 at 13:14:29
Pia Malcolm(pia@elexir.co.za)we as humans have a hugh responsibility to try and preserve and maintain the animal kingdom not destroy and eliminate it.
- Monday July 12, 1999 at 08:48:18
chanie eekhout(fltopsjnb@sunair.co.za)i thind it is disgraceful that anyone can even think of eating baboon. can only be savages.
- Monday July 12, 1999 at 05:53:21
Barbara Lockley(blockley@iafrica.com)I strongly object to the slaughter of baboons for meat. Next thing it will be dogs and cats and horses.
- Sunday July 11, 1999 at 22:50:51
petra sanderson(petras@jeremygallet.co.za)
- Sunday July 11, 1999 at 20:24:07
richard sanderson(petras@iafrica.com)
- Sunday July 11, 1999 at 20:23:21
Allie Kramarz(allie@icon.co.za)We won't kill murderers and rapists, but we'll kill innocent, intelligent creatures which are so much more desetving than we are
- Sunday July 11, 1999 at 15:57:58
Dawid van Wyk(dawidvw@icon.co.za)Remember how AIDS first crossed over from other primates to humans through the consumption of monkey meat by humans?
- Sunday July 11, 1999 at 13:48:51
Roberta Bach(bach99@internet-zahav.net.il)I am a vegetarian and actually don't condone the consumption of any meat, but in the name of God, has man become so greedy - that he has to eat every living, moving thing that he lays eyes on?????? Stop this and stop it now. Baboons, chimps, all the apes, in fact, are so human, actually more human than us humans will ever be. Leave them alone to roam their natural habitat and to be the beautiful animals that God intended them to be - not a piece of steak on your plate!
Good luck
- Saturday July 10, 1999 at 18:32:52
Roberta Bach(bach99@internet-zahav.net.il)I am a vegetarian and actually don't condone the consumption of any meat, but in the name of God, has man become so greedy - that he has to eat every living, moving thing that he lays eyes on?????? Stop this and stop it now. Baboons, chimps, all the apes, in fact, a
- Saturday July 10, 1999 at 18:32:04
Lauren Taylor(lauren@absol.co.za)
- Saturday July 10, 1999 at 17:09:53
Robyn Swan(robyn@writeme.com)
- Saturday July 10, 1999 at 14:39:10
Chantal Louw(chanecho@hotmail.com)How did we get to be "in charge"?

- Saturday July 10, 1999 at 10:30:56
Shaun Asbury(botchup@icon.co.za)
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 22:48:23
Alsten Joubert(Offspring@webmail.co.za)Baboons belong in the wild and not in our supermarkets.
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 21:26:37
Esmari Joubert(esmarij@hotmail.com)
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 16:51:00
louise kleingeld(valentin@gem.co.za)will you slaugther your own children too
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 16:17:48
louise kleingeld(valentin@gem.co.za)will you slaugther your own children too
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 16:17:44
Wayne van Schoor(wvanschoor@oldmutual.com)YUCH!!!!!
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 15:07:10
Rudolph du Toit(rudolpht@absa.co.za)
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 14:25:01
Vivienne Mawby(vivienne.mawby@liblink.co.za)
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 14:12:03
Craig Shackleton(craig@masifundeafrika.co.za)
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 13:14:56
Estelle Oelofsen(oelofsee@mj.org.za)People who participate in such atrocity should be institutionalised(mental institution.
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 12:43:54
Tracy Sullivan(tracy.sullivan@wang.com)
- Friday July 9, 1999 at 10:21:18
Kevin (kevin@geodas.co.za)I strongly object to the baboon abbatoir and i feel that our government can really make a difference in the worlds opnion towards us, by rejecting this proposal of the abbatoir, and in so doing declaring to the world that South Africa is a leader in the conservation of Africa's wildlife.
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 22:36:01
Margherita Fischer(pasq@mweb.co.za)I find it shocking to know that this plan to build a baboon abbatoir has even been considered, in this day and age when we are supposed be trying to save our heritage for future generations. The only reason why it was considered is obvious, the money involed and lets face it that is what counts at the end of the day to most of our officals, I think the day we start slaughtering our wildlife for consumption on a large scale is the day we might us well give up our very esscence of being, without our wildlife we as 'africans' will have nothing to be proud of, and lets not forget how badly this will effect our economy, because tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in Africa...
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 21:49:45
Anta van Wyk(bjaman@iwwn.com.na)I would like to show my support to this isseu.
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 17:26:47
Esmé Meyer(esmemeyer@icon.co.za)Thanks to these practices the world now knows aids; STOP these people!!!
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 17:00:28
Charlene Henning(charleneh@suprachem.co.za)STOP THE CRUELTY!!!!!!!
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 12:22:31
diyani phillip(diyanip@discoveryhealth.co.za)STOP THE CRUELTY
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 11:59:06
Margo Steyn(margoS@discoveryhealth.co.za)No words needed.
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 11:41:48
Frank(Harlequin@ananzi.co.za)Save the animals!!
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 09:19:30
Riyaad Hoosain(extacy@mweb.co.za)This should never be allowed under any circumstances. i am totally against it !
- Thursday July 8, 1999 at 08:18:48
Liani Germishuyse(wild@fast.co.za)PLEASE GROW UP!!!!!
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 22:58:21
Claudio Massella(claudio@icon.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 21:06:57
Ronley Konwiser(ronsteve@inter.net.il)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 20:54:06
ang biram(ang)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 17:50:35
jacqui l'ange(jax@tinderbox.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 17:21:00
jason iversen(jason@refinery.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 17:07:55
Frans Greybe(fhg@icon.co.za)One day judgement will be dealt.
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 17:06:53
Peter Sinclair(psinclair)Do humans havs such little dignity in themselves that we now have to start slaughtering baboons for tinned food and sex stimulants. Where do we go from here?


- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 16:24:49
Gary Griffiths(garyg@tmlmag.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 16:04:19
Michelle Fouche(michellef@aviation.denel.co.za)Sometimes I am ashamed to be called a human being, we are supposed to be the most intelligent beings on earth, but sometimes I wonder!!! I agree with Nick lets have a human abattoir.
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 15:49:18
Sue Lynch(sue.lynch@umgeni.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 15:35:41
Sheldon Rene(saint_sheldon@yahoo.com)Please don't kill baboons
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:37:35
Serene Dhunpath(serene_carmen@yahoo.com)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:36:45
Claire Schultz(cschultz@channel.psg.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:33:02
Jenny Griffin(jgriffin@botzoo.uct.ac.za)This is disgusting! Not only is it completely unethical for reasons stated in point one above,
but this is exactly where AIDS (in its various stains) originated from (point 3 above)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:20:18
Gavin Kirkbride(debbie@match.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:07:36
Debbie Kirkbride(debbie@match.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:02:48
Debbie Kirkbride(debbie@match.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:59:03
Michelle Meier(jsssa@mweb.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:44:26
Henry Amsinck(jsssa@mweb.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:37:04
Henry Amsinck(jsssa@mweb.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:36:11
Margaux Davidson(MDavidson@csir.co.za)What could they possible have done to deserve that. We are the culprits not them!
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:15:31
Lesley Thomas(thomasl@iafrica.com)How anyone can agre to this i really do not know!!!!!
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 11:56:05
Jurgen Kieslich(jurgs@iafrica.com)God help us !!
7 July 1999
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 11:35:43
Pavs Pillay(ppillay@botzoo.uct.ac.za)7 July 1999
What next ? we are indeed the only species hell bent on destroying every
other species that we share this world with and ourselves - sad.


- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 11:34:28
Lorna Gray(lorna@outlore.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 11:21:19
Zaraida Wessels(zwessels@g5.co.za)There seem to be too may sick people out there. Baboons are also Gods creatures and were not put here to be slaughtered but preserved so they dont become extinct. Why are these cruel, disgusting people still breathing our air.
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 11:10:42
Kym(kclayton@g5.co.za)What has this world come to?
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:47:26
Lelani Vorster(lvorster@openware.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:32:05
Wendy Sandstrom(wendy@nail.co.za)What a barbaric, cruel proposal, this must definitely be withdrawn.
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:54:48
Dave Neill(dave.neill@acenet.co.za)What Next !!!!!
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:52:04
Sandra Walker(sandraw@africon.co.za)Maybe we should all become vegetarians...
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:13:53
Charmaine Young(justine@iafrica.com)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:05:40
Craig Ferguson(craig.ferguson@za.eds.com)what an appalling idea. This may NOT go ahead
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:57:51
Antoinette Bailie(abailie@zanet.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:36:34
Clifford van Lelyveld(tursiops73@ananzi.co.za)This is the sickest, most disgusting and abhorrent idea I have ever heard. Whatever will such people think of next?
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:28:35
Nick(Nick@mighty.co.za)How about a human abbatoir?? Lets hear it from the baboons...
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:27:31
katrina brady(kbrady@clear.co.nz)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:16:49
T Lockyer(lockyer@mweb.co.za)Absolutely appalling. We need to preserve animals, not slaughter them.
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 07:52:28
Debbie Stoltzer(Debbies@discoveryhealth.co.za)I strongly object to any inhumane treatment of animals as far as this is conerned. This is sick....
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 07:52:20
Debbie Stoltzer(Debbies@discoveryhealth.co.za)I strongly object to any inhumane treatment of animals as far as this is conerned. This is sick....
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 07:52:08
Nina Wasserman(nina@gcn.co.za)Totally disgusting and cruel
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 07:47:38
Marlene Russell(beluga@intekom.co.za)
- Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 01:40:27
Elise Durand(perspective3d@geocities.com)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:41:24
Selina De Freitas(hme@mweb.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:30:22
Nola D Hogan(nolah@iafrica.com)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 21:03:38
Liezel Mortimer(mortimer@mweb.co.za)Stop this before it goes any further!!!!!!
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 20:52:07
Imogen de Meillon(suntour@iafrica.com)I can't believe that the idea has even been thought of. It's so repellent to nature and conservation lover. Please count me in as completely opposed.
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 20:36:10
Harold Gess(gess@icon.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 19:54:07
D Blagden(dido@iafrica.com)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 19:37:40
Debra Buys(dbuys@intekom.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:47:57
M'Zanne Kemp(paul.zanne@pixie.co.za)Please NO cruelty to animals! Don;'t kill! Save and protect them.
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:27:09
Keren Nowak(mhnowak@mweb.co.za)Isn't it bad enough that we use other animals like cows and chickens for commercial use in the most disgusting ways. What does man kind have to do to satisfy his hunger for cruelty and disrespect for nature?
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:38:43
Mirko Nowak(mhnowak@mweb.co.za)I cannot believe what human beings will come up with next, all in the name of progress. I am ashamed to identify myself as a human sometimes due to the lack of respect we have for the wonders of nature. When shall we learn to humble ourselves before nature and accept that we are only a part thereof, not above it.
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:28:37
Lee Ann Mounter(leec@edgecomp.co.za)Surely we should be progressing as a civilisation? This is disgusting.
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:22:46
Sarah Mackay(sarah@duxbury.co.za)If we do this to baboons. Why not do it to the in-humane idiots as well?
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:29:59
Sarah Mackay(sarah@duxbury.co.za)If we do this to baboons. Why not do it to the in-humane idiots as well?
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:28:56
cathy grant(cathy@match.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:23:49
HT(paturn@hotmail.com)Stop this now!!
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:22:52
Yolande Hay-Buchanan(yolande@global.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:15:17
Grant Fowler(grant.fowler@pixie.co.za)This is absurd, and should be stopped at all costs.
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 15:42:59
Janet Francis(janetfrancis50@hotmail.com)What are we doing to our world?
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 15:38:46
J Le Roux(jlr@paradigm-sa.com)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 15:29:30
stacey Pearson(stacey@touchvision.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:53:20
Di Phillipson(di)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:48:49
Rui Goncalves(ruig@microgaming.com)Let me eat your brother and then tell me how you feel!
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:41:33
Natalie Jackson(natalieJ@match.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:37:22
Ilse Hayes(ih@risa.co.za)Absolutely disgusting idea!
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:13:52
Francois Bredenkamp(francoisb@objectsoftware.com)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:01:27
Tracy Theron(tracyt@sdd.com)If this is allowed, what next... cannibalism - as far as I'm concerned it's the same thing!
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 13:46:39
Taryn Larsen(TarynL@za.sappi.com)Shut this dreaded disgusting place down. I wish that the people involved in thiscome back in their next lifes as baboons, and then get murdered for human consumption, as if there isn't enough food on this planet.
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 13:29:48
Davina Gottschalk(davina@touchvision.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 13:23:54
Heidi Hill(heidi@aurica.co.za)
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 13:07:54
Henriette Erasmus(henrietee@debis.co.za)this must not be allowed
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 11:17:12
rebecca haynes(rebecca@activated.co.za)Leave baboons in the reserves where they belong.
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 11:04:48
Samantha Devine(faxlists@dbn.lia.net)And we're supposed to run this planet???
- Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 08:01:49
Nicola Taylor(tayloc@iafrica.co.za)
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 17:33:50
Shannon Davis(davis@qdata.co.za)
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 17:29:24
Andre Sachs(asachs@uunet.co.za)I am sickend to the pit of my stomach. This must stop.
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 15:21:24
natasha pinto(tasha@oim.co.za)This was their country before it was ours.
I think a little respect for their rights are in need.
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 14:25:12
Mike Vieyra(mikev@za.ibm.com)The supposed "entrepeneurs" who dreamed up this hair brained scheme have lost touch with their own humanity. Profit seems to be their only god.
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 14:15:09
Karen Sampson(karens@cna.co.za)This is sick and barbaric. Something has to be done about this.
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 13:22:26
Bella Murray(imurray@debeers.co.za)This can only hapen in South Africa, as we seem to have gone backwards instead of forward.
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 12:29:50
Heike Menne(hme@mweb.co.za)Is it really necessary?
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 12:06:26
Frank Burgmeier(fburgme1@wcny.rr.com)I can,t believe my eyes. How inhuman. Words can not express what we all feel, please hear us.
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 07:24:00
Tedi Burgmeier(tburgme1@twcny.rr.com)Disgusting!! I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race,when I read things like this. What are we coming to?
- Monday July 5, 1999 at 07:20:50
D Temkin(detemkin@dttus.com)
- Thursday June 24, 1999 at 00:23:12
D Temkin(detemkin@dttus.com)
- Thursday June 24, 1999 at 00:22:27
Mynhard Rudolph(mr@prism.co.nz)Is this awful thing still going ahead? I thought it wasn't legal?
- Thursday June 24, 1999 at 00:18:56
Yvonne Walus(yve@xtra.co.nz)
- Wednesday June 23, 1999 at 23:41:28
Yvonne Walus(yve@xtra.co.nz)
- Wednesday June 23, 1999 at 23:38:36
Riek Muller(riek.muller@implats.co.za)We are suppose to be a civilised people but are we?
- Monday June 21, 1999 at 09:09:40
Massimo Tommei(redeem@global.co.za)
- Friday June 11, 1999 at 17:22:58
Lorenzo Tommei(redeem@global.co.za)
- Friday June 11, 1999 at 17:22:43
Giuliano Tommei(redeem@global.co.za)
- Friday June 11, 1999 at 17:22:27
Mariano Tommei(redeem@global.co.za)
- Friday June 11, 1999 at 17:22:16
Gianna Tommei(redeem@global.co.za)
- Friday June 11, 1999 at 17:22:01
susannah mansfield(susannah.mansfield@britain.co.uk)Have we learned nothing about extinction? have we not reduced and even forced into extinction many beautiful animals from all continents?

To set up a baboon abattoir is not only stupid but very, very cruel. No man has a right to take a life - be it human or animal. You are fully aware of the lethal diseases which can be passed on to the human race (of which you claim you are a part) through the consumption of this type of animal.

DO NOT BE SO ARROGANT AND LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE - you are being observed by the world - how does that make you feel?
- Friday June 11, 1999 at 14:46:31
Michele Pickover(michelep@library.wits.ac.za)Outrageous. Unacceptable. Unthinking. Uncaring. What next???????
- Thursday June 10, 1999 at 16:53:45
Conrad van Blerk(conradp3@freemail.co.za)Stop slaughtering of baboons
- Tuesday June 8, 1999 at 12:07:05
Jennifer Walker(jenniferw@icon.co.za)Please don't let this barbaric behaviour continue - it must be stopped
- Monday June 7, 1999 at 14:57:58
Clive Moses(clive@meridian.co.za)The very idea of a baboon abbatoir is barbaric in the extreme!!!
- Monday June 7, 1999 at 08:58:12
Nicky Carklin(nickyc@hotmail.com)
- Sunday June 6, 1999 at 21:44:40
Lara Bonetto(jogs99@ivillage.com)Daily I am increasingly ashamed to belong to such a sick society.Such practices must be prevented/stopped !
- Sunday June 6, 1999 at 21:34:26
Giel(dutoitg@mweb.co.za)IT SUCKS!!!!
- Sunday June 6, 1999 at 21:11:57
paul pope(smeggie@global.co.za)next we shall be eating eachother! what type of country are we living in pre stone age?
- Friday June 4, 1999 at 20:45:49
Michael Pokraka(michaelp@siemens.co.za)No!
- Friday June 4, 1999 at 08:29:26
Fiona Riley(FionaR@Siemens.co.za)Things are seemingly going from bad to worse as far as Animal Cruelty in this Country goes. Please don't let this Baboon Abattoir go ahead. The Baboon is a relative of the human and therefore, not there to kill and eat - that would be like murder!
- Thursday June 3, 1999 at 17:12:38
Deborah Baldwin(debonair@gol.com)Please do not handicap the progress of South Africa by allowing such an abhorrent and potentially catastrophic commercial activity to go ahead.
- Sunday May 30, 1999 at 08:44:21
Deborah Baldwin(debonair@gol.com)Please don't handicap the development of South Africa by approving this abhorrent proposal.
- Sunday May 30, 1999 at 07:55:58
Tanya Rinehart(buffalotanya@apc.org)This is an unnecessary commercial activity.
Please don't allow it to continue.
- Saturday May 29, 1999 at 20:56:20
Amber (amberrae@earthlink.net)
- Friday May 28, 1999 at 04:30:17
Letitia Meynell(lmmeynel@julian.uwo.ca)
- Thursday May 27, 1999 at 01:27:58
Sharon Markowitz(lousinda@eden.rutgers.edu)
- Thursday May 27, 1999 at 00:58:42
Andrew Fenton(afenton@ucalgary.ca)In addition to the three considerations above, there are questions about how we ought to treat at least certain nonhuman animals. Without ad hoc appeals to the humanity of an individual to explain the special moral standing we accord those of our own species from at least newborn to the elderly, it seems we must look to various cognitive capacities to explain such standing. I think there is little question that baboons share with human newborns a profound capacity for both feeling pleasure and pain. What is more, baboons exhibit a significant awareness of their surroundings and each other. To exclude baboons from the special standing we accord to even the most undeveloped of our own species, then, smacks of mere prejudice. This is not merely an academic point. The proposed abattoir will involve the breeding, and eventual slaughtering, of sentient, perhaps sapient, animals. This proposal is as unconscionable as a chimpanzee, or let it be said human, abattoir.
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 21:22:26
Natasha Mohr(rm12908@navix.net)
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 21:13:01
Michael Rabbath(Pike1217@aol.com)I find it cruel and disgusting that people would even consider slaughtering baboons for human consumption or whatever the purpose may be. They are living, breathing creatures who aren't that much different than humans, speaking from an evolutionary stand-point. If we permit this slaughter to happen, we may as well start killing each other.
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 19:34:59
Marj Jones(liftedlorax@uswest.net)Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to get better. It's not. Listen, learn, and let live.
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 19:04:55
Barbara Holtz(BHoltz@phjw.com)I'm outraged at the idea of slaughtering baboons. It's thoroughly disgusting.
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 18:41:53
Meghan McGrath(mmcgrath@eden.rutgers.edu)
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 17:20:26
Christine Rabbath(car110@eden.rutgers.edu)This is ridiculous and disgusting. I cannot believe that anything like this could ever be allowed. When will it stop? How far will we go? What won't we do?
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 10:05:32
Sarah Luick(Sarah_Luick@msn.com)This is ridiculous to call this anything except "hunting" and then horribly killing our next of kin in order to eat a relative. Unbelievable. Hard to make a distinction between this and genocide. So coincidental that to kill and eat baboon keeps them in their place as pests to agriculture and something easy to torture. The world won't survive with actions such as these.
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 03:50:02
Dawn Westley(dawn@cpur.canon.co.jp)We do not own the Earth we are mearly its guests as all other creatures are. We have to stop having a negative impact on every corner of the planet. Must we be the enemy of every organism in the ecosystem? Can't we let even one species live in peace?
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 03:21:28
Pru Foster, PhD(pru@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp)AIDs very likely came from humans eating chimpanzees. If that weren't enough, don't you know that baboons are sentitnent, feeling creatures that would be ripped from their families and terrorized? We will not be judged by how much stuff we acrue in our lives but how we treat the people and wildlife that we are so luckly to share this planet with. Please, think again!
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 02:24:36
michelle bulpett(mbulpett@hotmail.com)baboons are protected by cites please consider using domesticated animals rather than primates.
- Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 01:44:04
Susan Kline(susan99kline@hotmail.com)I strongly object to the Baboon slauthering! This is barbaric, cruel and unnecessary. Let's show some compassion for the primates and all other animals!!!!
- Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 21:59:39
Liani Guiotto(Liani@GSMD.com)I think this idea is absolutely cruel and disgusting. Hope those people realize what they want to do. Shame on them, no human being can play GOD.
- Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 16:35:51
Jacqlyn Edge(info@animals.co.za)I find it fascinating how people can come up with seemingly animal- or conservation-friendly excuses for committing the worst atrocities. Do they really think we're so dumb that we can't see through it?
- Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 08:54:35
anne van vliet(anne@technews.co.za)There is no way an abattoir the size of the proposed one to be built outside Warmbaths, can possibly be financially viable. The baboon population will be decimated within a matter of weeks at the proposed processing rate. How can the so-called business men involved go ahead with such a project on the flimsy excuse they will help to save other endangered primates in the rest of Africa? This is an abomination in the eyes of all decent South Africans, who value their heritage and wildlife. What place does an American have in this wanton destruction? Please do not allow this dreadful project to go ahead.
- Monday May 24, 1999 at 14:48:30