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 isi-ewu to nkwobi to ngwongwo, 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.
They have virtually hunted all wildlife to extinction in
Igbo land. Today the largest animals in the bushes and forests of Igboland are
the grass cutter, a few monkeys and 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 professional hunters cos
all the animals have been eaten. Back in the day, anyone who killed a lion is celebrated and confered with a chieftaincy title of 'ogbuagu'. Today 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.
Article by Fred O. Amakom II
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