Forbidden 'bushmeat' smuggled in the UK is sold for home delivery via social media, the mail can reveal – as experts warn that it can be infected with deadly Ebola.
In the midst of fear of an increase in the easy availability of potentially dangerous illegal meat – including monkeys, porcup pigs, African reed rats and lizards – accounts on TIKTOK, Facebook and Instagram offer the door of the door '.
The term bushmeat covers wild mammals, reptiles and birds that are hunted in West and Central Africa, Asia and America.
Although the meat that is legally imported into the UK, strict health controls must endure to ensure that it is safe, you ignite this smuggled bushmeat this.
The e -mail found one tap -profile, called LocalfoodDiary, located in Lagos, Nigeria, which claims to have 'freshly dried' porcupine and 'grass cutter' – known as the Greater Cane Rat – 'Very much available'.
It also claims how easy it is to get Bushmeat in the UK, a package with a London zip code and the caption: “Bushmeat package arrived UK.”
It recently offered a 'United Kingdom Combo deal', including '1 Antelope or Grasscutter' '1 full goat' and '50 pieces of dried snails' for £ 397.
Within 11 days, another profile called 'Kjsaraha' offers the door of the UK 'at the door' and 'Express' shipping for' smuggling 'including' Ponmo Fish, dried snail, Kilishi [a form of jerky] and dried meat '.
Forbidden 'bushmeat' smuggled in the UK is sold through social media
The above seller uses Tiktok to advertise with meat, including dried porcupine
Another seller who offers Bushmeat, including Guinea -Kip, Alligator and Grascutter on Tiktok
Bushmeat could wear foot-and-claw, anthrax, the deadly Ebola virus, TB or cholera, experts have warned
Almost 100 tons of illegal meat was seized last year in Dover – an increase of more than 75 percent at 2023.
The Food Standards Agency advises consumers not to buy or eat bushmeat or other illegal meat because it can be unsafe.
Experts have warned that the serious infectious diseases could bear, including foot-and-bare, spleenvuur, the deadly Ebola virus, TB or Cholera.
MO METCALF-FISHER, of the Countryside Alliance, warned 'the illegal sale of Bushmeat can present a serious bio-safety threat' and insisted on the government to take social media companies 'responsibility'.
There is a ban on importing meat from outside the European internal market, including purchased articles.
A government spokesperson said it is “unambiguously that importing illegal meat is unacceptable.”
Tiktok has removed two of the profiles that have been emphasized by the mail. The social media account holders and meta, who owns Instagram and Facebook, have been contacted for comment.
