Igbo People And Their Mad Craze For Meat

Igbo people are some of the most voracious and senseless meat eaters on this planet earth. From pepper soup, to fried meat to roasted meat to nkwobi, ngwongwo, isi ewu, assorted, cow tail, cow leg, pepper soup, etc; their appetite for meat is unrivalled. While other ethnic groups eat meat for food, Igbo people eat meat for fun, for pleasure, without any regards for nutrition or conservation or sustainability. Igbo people just go after meat with reckless abandon. It is only the Igbo man who, after a large meal that includes some good amount of meat, will still want to wash down with a plate of pepper soup!

The result is that they have virtually hunted all wildlife to extinction in Igbo land. Today the largest animals in the bushes and forests of Igbo land are the grass cutter and a few monkeys, perhaps a few miserly antelopes!  Igbo people have eaten up all the rest, including baboons, gorillas and chimpanzees. The famed elephants of Abia and its environs have all been eaten up. All the deer, lions, tigers, buffaloes and so on that once roamed the bushes and forests of Igboland have all been hunted down and eaten up by Igbo people.

Today there are no more traditionalprofessional hunters cos all the animals have been eaten.  No more 'ogbuagu' (lion killer)as a title cos all the lions have been eaten up. Even the larger domestic animals such as the native Igbo cow have all been eaten up. Go around Igbo land, the native cow have been eaten to extinction. Even the native goat is being eaten up even as we speak, in our own very eyes. It is now so scarce that hey now depend on Northern goats to satisfy their mad craving for for goat meat. Why? Because they have eaten up theirs with reckless abandon. They now go all the way to Kenya and South Africa for a taste of wild meat that once roamed their own lands.

Granted, the North also have a thing for meat, but more sensibly, they also raise and breed domesticated animals more than enough to satisfy their cravings. But not the Igbos!. Now after eating up everything in Igboaland, they have turned north. Knowing their voracity for meat, coupled with their purchasing power, the North is in trouble … animalistically speaking.