Paging Meg Whitman. Ebay is Killing Elephants (and Africans) With Keystrokes

At the second presidential debate, John McCain named Med Whitman (after impossible to get and possibly out of his area of expertise Warren Buffet, a great businessman and humanitarian, who would likely have little impact on a typically neocon McCain administration) as his likely Secretary of the Treasury.

Well, Ebay has just discovered that it has been helping kill elephants and even African rangers who try to protect the animals since the online selling has been aiding and abetting ivory poachers.

Excerpt "Ebay found to be 'killing with keystrokes’, halts ivory auctions":

IFAW originally accused eBay as being the source for 83% of all ivory identified by investigators, and a total of 63% of all trade focused upon by the investigation. However, the IFAW also mentioned that a comprehensive tally of Ebay’s sales would raise that tally even higher. 

"This demonstrates one of the key issues in global Internet trade: a strong policy without adequate enforcement is ineffective," the group said. "This very lack of policy enforcement may in fact make eBay the largest digital marketplace in the world for ivory that may violate national or international law or Web site policy." 

You Betcha!

 Now the report I link to only mentions elephant killings.  I listen and read a lot of African news and know that where elephant killing for ivory poaching is going on, Africans are being killed in the process.

Did Meg Whitman care?  Why did it take so long for Ebay to ban ivory?

One more for the tally of extremely greedy people in the McCain camp.

Meg Whitman was Ebay CEO from 1998 to March 2008 when she stepped down to go for the better job as explained above.  I'm assuming that ivory selling has been as mush a part of Ebay's offerings as shoddy misrepresented garbage has for that time.

tags: ebay  meg whitman  john mccain  ivory trade  elephants  poaching  

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