Bandits butcher vet school's horses for meat in Venezuela

[Bacchus4.0]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-bandits-kill-horses-for-meat-veterinary-school-maracay-economic-crisis/

MARACAY, Venezuela -- Rafael Toro, a student at Venezuela's top veterinary school, suspected something was amiss when a beloved horse called Miss Congeniality didn't greet him at the fence one recent morning along with others in the campus' small herd.

The bright-eyed, bay-colored mare had earned her nickname for helping disabled students overcome their fear of riding horses. They say she was smart and even trotted up when you called her name.

To his shock, Toro discovered the horse's skin and dismembered bones hidden among trees in the corner pasture of the sprawling campus in the central Venezuelan city of Maracay. Thieves overnight had hopped the fence, slaughtered the horse and made off with her meat - either to sell or to feed their hungry families.

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The slaughter isn't an isolated incident. Across Venezuela, as the once-wealthy oil nation's economy collapses and sky-high inflation leaves residents struggling to afford scarce food, crimes of hunger and desperation are soaring.

[GatoGordo]

1. PROPAGANDA FROM THE VILE RIGHT WING CONSPIRATORS! (according to the Maduristas)

This story is "propaganda"! When it was reported last week, another forum apologist offered that the fact that the horses bones in picture were "picked clean" suggested that the story was fake. Because why would a starving population kill a horse in order to eat?

But chasing down a terrified cow to stone it to death before carving it up was somewhat more palatable. Reasonable people do that all the time...