{"id":1596,"date":"2010-04-30T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T19:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\/whats_in_your_meatball\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:04:12","slug":"whats_in_your_meatball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/whats_in_your_meatball\/","title":{"rendered":"Whats in your meatball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"image left\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/files\/javan-langur.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('..\/..\/javan-langur.jpg','popup','width=240,height=180,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"javan-langur.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/files\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/javan-langur-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"220\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"credit\">Flickr: Stuutje<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>?<\/span>If you were buying your meatballs from a suspicious couple in Indonesia, it may have been monkey meat. Yes, the flesh from cute little tree dwellers probably ended up in a few bowls of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=scx8gLTEXBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>bakso<\/em><\/a>, Indonesian meatball soup.<\/p>\n<p>If the thought of little monkeys floating in your soup isn&#8217;t bad enough, the monkeys that were poached were a rare species, called Javan Langurs, or silver-leaf monkeys. They are currently protected in Indonesia because of their endangered status. <\/p>\n<p>The couple&#8217;s excuse to authorities was that beef and chicken are more expensive than poaching endangered monkeys for free. <\/p>\n<p>Maximum prison term for the crime is 5 years, a fine of up to $555 U.S. dollars and a haunted house filled with angry little ghost monkeys for all eternity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr: Stuutje ?If you were buying your meatballs from a suspicious couple in Indonesia, it may have been monkey meat. 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