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Hungry Venezuelans killing flamingos and anteaters for food, biologists say
Miami Herald ^ | February 10, 2017 | Gustavo Ocando

Posted on 02/11/2017 2:39:40 PM PST by Zakeet

Biology student Luis Sibira stumbled across the first set of gory remains last November: eight pink flamingos, their breasts and torsos sliced out, leaving their heads, spindly legs and vivid feathers scattered across the marshy ground at Las Peonias Lagoon in western Venezuela.

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There are other signs that food shortages have led to the slaughtering of animals not generally considered meat: giant anteaters, for one. The university investigators - biologists and biology students - say they have kept records to show that dozens of the slow-moving creatures, classified as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, also have been killed for food.

In the city's dump, more evidence of hunger-driven desperation: dismembered dogs, cats, donkeys, horses and pigeons have been found since last year, all skinned or plucked, with signs of having been eaten, according to the city’s garbage teams.

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... scavenging for food has become widespread. People are often seen looking for discarded eggs, cookies, milk, flour, breads, broccoli stems, beet leaves or expired butter, said Campos, a sociologist at Zulia.

For most families, healthy meals are simply out of reach.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animals; communism; famine; food; hunger; hyperinflation; socialism; venezuela; vulnerable
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To: Zakeet

I call bullshit, if things were as bad as described, there’d be nothing in the garbage but inedible trash. Another boo-hoo job, nice try, Gusty...


21 posted on 02/11/2017 3:27:44 PM PST by W. (How sweet it is to say "Former President 0bama!")
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To: adorno

That is actually happening, esp. in their jails. Easy to search for, but not for the faint of heart to read. Very disturbing stuff.


22 posted on 02/11/2017 3:29:33 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Zakeet

Flamingo tongues sauteed in white wine and butter are fantastic


23 posted on 02/11/2017 3:35:24 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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To: JimRed
What about fraud?

THERE IS NO FRAUD!!!

24 posted on 02/11/2017 3:37:43 PM PST by null and void (Trump's critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it.)
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To: Zakeet

You can safely bet that Maduro and his gang of sycophants aren’t going hungry.


25 posted on 02/11/2017 3:39:56 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: oldasrocks
What’s the fastest animal in the world?

An Ethiopian chicken.

First heard that one when I had an Ethiopian roommate. Never did tell it to him...

26 posted on 02/11/2017 3:42:02 PM PST by null and void (Trump's critics have evolved from expecting Trump to be Hitler to preferring it.)
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To: PGR88
I hate to say they “deserve it,” but its tough to feel any other way

I understand. I'm a conservative in a blue/lib state, so when red-staters complain about crazy leftist crap that goes national, I want to say "Hey! Don't look at me!"

I have to believe (I hope?) there are Venezuelans who are "normal" and DON'T deserve it.

27 posted on 02/11/2017 3:46:09 PM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: workerbee

I’m surprised the loathsome creatures at PETA haven’t called for the extermination of the Venezuela population in order to save the wildlife.


28 posted on 02/11/2017 3:56:38 PM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Zakeet

Ain’t communism great?


29 posted on 02/11/2017 4:10:07 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: Zakeet

30 posted on 02/11/2017 4:18:43 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: PGR88

Well...Chavez did have financing and propaganda help from Iran and Cuba.
till required a bunch of stupid gimmedats to get him in but it wasn’t entirely domestic.
I wonder if Soros pitched in too since years ago I remember arguing with liberals about Chavez when he first got in, predicting that food shortages and famine would inevitably follow.


31 posted on 02/11/2017 4:27:49 PM PST by piasa
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To: Zakeet

Can cannibalism be far behind?


32 posted on 02/11/2017 4:29:32 PM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: Zakeet
Venezuela is quickly devolving into the worst of the Great Leap Forward, an ill-advised attempt at collective modernization that ended up killing 45 million Chinese from essentially a human-induced famine.

The possibility of millions of Venezuelans literally starving to death is about to happen within as little as two years, in my (sadly) humble opinion.

33 posted on 02/11/2017 4:31:06 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Zakeet

The peoples living along the rivers and streams probably aren’t affected as the city dwellers are. Those people have been subsisting on the products from the rivers for centuries.


34 posted on 02/11/2017 4:35:43 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: PGR88

A lot of Venezuelans are in the same position we were when Obama won. We didn’t vote for him, but we got him, good and hard.


35 posted on 02/11/2017 4:43:44 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Zakeet

Communism is grand, isn’t it? Venezuela is sitting on some of the largest pockets of natural resources in the world while its population starves to death.


36 posted on 02/11/2017 4:48:42 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: piasa

Argentine liberal prez Nestor Kirchner helped out too.... sent briefcases full of cash to the communists in Venezuela.

Kirchner’s the guy whose election was aided by meddling US democrats like Carville, same way the libs meddled in Israel’s election.

Screwed up Argentina’s economy too.


37 posted on 02/11/2017 4:49:09 PM PST by piasa
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

Already there in prisons .... and it will spread.


38 posted on 02/11/2017 4:54:03 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Dan Rather, a 60 Minutes Investigative Reporter for CBS, invented "Fake News"-fake but accurate.)
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To: RayChuang88
> The possibility of millions of Venezuelans literally starving to death is about to happen within as little as two years, in my (sadly) humble opinion.

I'd get busy building a secret garden and possibly getting some livestock if. I could trade something or. It. That is, if I were allowed to own any land. In Venezuela I'd imagine the state owns everything. I guess I'd have to adopt the government's mindset and just steal some land back from them...: )

39 posted on 02/11/2017 5:00:30 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: wjcsux

Venezuela won’t even let our NOAA aircraft investigate hurricanes going through their airspace, nor does Mexico.

Food drops probably can’t fly, either.


40 posted on 02/11/2017 5:05:08 PM PST by txhurl (The LEFT are screaming at the Tsunami, and the Sky, trying to set fire to the Ocean- S.Tom)
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