Posted on 09/15/2007 12:57:39 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, animal welfare activists say.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it could not feed surrendered animals or find them new homes and was being forced to kill them and destroy the corpses.
Animals, like people, are being hard hit by Zimbabwe's economic meltdown, with official inflation of more than 7,600 percent, the highest in the world. Independent estimates put real inflation closer to 25,000 percent and the International Monetary Fund has forecast it will reach 100,000 percent by the end of the year.
Vets have run out of the drug used to put down the animals and are relying on intermittent donations from neighboring South Africa. One veterinary practice was waiting for supplies to destroy about 20 animals, and on Friday could neither feed them adequately nor fatally inject them.
In its latest bulletin to donors and supporters, the SPCA said it launched an awareness campaign on "the ethical and moral issues regarding the killing and consumption of trusted companion animals."
"But in the face of starvation and the burgeoning number of stray and abandoned animals, the moral issues become far more complex and we should not be too hasty in our condemnations when animals and people are suffering equally," it said............"
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something needs to be done. a friend of mine in South Africa refers to Mugabe as “Mad Bob”. that pretty well covers it.
We should send Jimmah Carter.
yes! and Rev.’s Jesse and Al! think they would keep them? lol
Wow, we never saw this coming. /s
Better there than here.
i just hope China doesn't decide to help the people of Zim out and start sending them food...oh wait...Mad Bob usually ends up with most of what is donated to the people! :))
If your local animal shelter has a BBQ grill out back you may be in Zimbabwe. :o)
"Mad Bob" and his gang need deposed. I think he will survive. Although getting rid of him is the right thing to do, no country will back it. The West is so tied to the rightness of black rule in Africa and fear of being called imperialist they are rolled by this thug.
Well leftest do one thing they claim...
They get rid of wealth disparity.
Everyone in the end is dirt poor...
I can’t help but laugh and cry thinking about how kicking white farmers off their land is 100% responsible for this situation. I say, let them starve. Maybe the next evil, power-mad dictator will think twice.
I don’t think HRC gives it any thought at all.
The country was once called Rhodesia and was one of the most prosperous in Africa. Now a glowing illustration of leftist policies with its anti-white government. Of course the UN does nothing.
Never name an animal or pet you just might have to eat one day.
If your kids ate the charcoal...
I am surprised no one has blamed Ethanol for the food shortages
This shows how the forces at work in Europe and in our own Democratic Party could send our way of life to the dogs.
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