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[pisskop]

Do people hunt it or scavenge it or buy it at a market?

[TD1]

There's some African book which starts with an old woman refusing to eat monkey because it was so taboo. It highlighted that the white man had destroyed all other food options.

Not saying it's wrong, but we'd want to have an additional source other than a source which clearly has an agenda. Wikipedia has a page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_meat#By_region
For example:

Consuming monkey meat is a defining feature of the Bari people, who "perceive the eating of monkey meat as a boundary between them and non-indigenous people"; in recent years, however, some Bari tribe members have shied away from the practice because of how similar monkeys look to humans

So for at least one indigenous group, which admittedly is not necessarily representative, monkey meat is a traditional thing.

EDIT: However, the broad picture is that food taboos exist, may vary by region and often have some economic basis (I'm including costs to health as economic costs). So there might well be African regions where it's taboo to eat monkeys either due to disease or low economic value. But the idea that white man agriculture has driven Africans to the point of starvation so they have to eat monkeys sounds far-fetched. Sure there are famines, but there have always been famines. We should help them out but that doesn't mean white man caused the famines in Africa. Righto, they're hungry and eating monkeys which they never used to do because before the White Man came nobody was ever hungry. Uh, not buying this story.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bRVkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DXsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6232,1917093

Researching the issue revealed a relevant article and then this coconut one.

Huh.

[Naturegirl1999]

What? AN enchanted coconut causing a person to have a high fever, delirium, and then death? What did the instructor lace the coconut with?

[hector13]

Dengue fever.

[TD1]

Considering that the entire class touched said coconut, and the actual 'ill effects' only materialised some time after, I would posit that there is no causal link.

The alternative is to admit that this world holds an enchanted coconut which smites the unworthy.

[LordBaal]

Do people hunt it or scavenge it or buy it at a market?

Hunt it.

[overseer05-15]

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bRVkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DXsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6035%2C1916507

head of the firm of Dicks Ltd.

[MaximumZero]

Surgery deemed to be successful. I'm alive, aye turkey, took a nap, and I'm staying in the hospital overnight fit observation.

[Yoink]

Hooray!

[scriver]

We could rebuild him

We had the technology

[overseer05-15]

nanomachines, son

[Naturegirl1999]

That’s good. Did you like the turkey?

[Yoink]

I just watched The Gamers: Dorkness Rising for the first time.
That was wonderful. I'm not sure I know anyone in meatspace who would appreciate it, so I'm just gonna gush about it here.

[wierd]

Just got my microtek scanner working in 64bit win7.

(its a very very very old scanner, circa 2002.)

[Naturegirl1999]

I’ve never heard of the physical world being called meatspace before, also haven’t heard of Ganers: Darkness Rising before