Why Are We Like This?

I always assumed China was at the forefront of poaching and decimating the precious species of the world. I was wrong. The old culprit, Europe is still in the game, big time - Here.

"When Anne-Lise Chaber of the Zoological Society of London spent two and a half weeks with customs inspectors assigned to flights originating in sub-Saharan Africa and landing at Paris’s Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in June 2008, she found that bushmeat—the meat of wild animals—was being illegally brought in at an astonishing rate. Inspecting just 134 passengers arriving on 29 Air France flights (out of about 180 flights in all during the 18 days of the study, with a capacity of about 17,000 passengers per week), agents found 414 pounds of bushmeat and 288 pounds of livestock—including a nicely wrapped whole sheep and calves nestled in   carryalls.

Conservation biologists have previouslysounded the alarm about illegal sales of bushmeat by and to Africans living in Europe and the United States—Africans living abroad apparently want a taste of home just as Americans living overseas need their pizza fix—but the scope of the problem on a daily basis had never before been documented."

Why, we humans commit such a heinous act? How can someone even have a heart to do this? Are they immune to any sought of empathy? Yes, there are millions answers to these questions but none of the explanations are in harmony with us being civilized.
I cannot even write about this, isn't it all self evident? May be, the bonds we have with our Pets are sought of little redemption for the acts of others fellow humans but that ain't enough. (check out the heart breaking photographs)

"For hundreds of thousands of years the stew in the pot

Has brewed hatred and resentment that is difficult to stop.

If you wish to know why there are disasters of armies and weapons in the world,

Listen to the piteous cries from the slaughter house at midnight."
-Chinese Verse