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Provea noted that due to strong Venezuelan crisis "eat dog food"Posted on January 11, 2018by Kimberly Valecillo in Nationals
The non-governmental organization Provea confirmed that in the face of the economic crisis and food shortage that Venezuela is going through, there are people who are eating animal feed, according to this Wednesday's website.
Provea visited some supermarkets and shops in Caracas where he observed people who buy the so-called "dog sausages", made with crushed bone and other inedible parts of the chicken, for consumption.
Those interviewed by the NGO stated that they bought and prepared it mostly with chopped rice, another food that is not recommended to eat because "it does not meet the optimal conditions of health, since it is a by-product and waste of rice that contains bacteria that the production process can fall to the ground and be contaminated with rodent urine, " according to El Universal .
For Provea, the fact that Venezuelans are consuming these animal feeds is a dramatic consequence of the violation of the right to food by the State, for not taking measures to guarantee the population's access to basic diet products in a manner safe and at affordable prices.
Likewise, he described as arbitrary and insufficient the measures taken by Sundde to guarantee food for Venezuelans.
http://www.caraotadigital.net/nacionales/provea-constato-que-debido-a-fuerte-crisis-venezolanos-comen-alimentos-para-perros/
iViva Chavez! iViva la Revolucion!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)How many more missed meals until Venezuela reaches Nine?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)put the Oligarchy kicked out in 1999 and defeated in every election since.
The poor have been selling hair in a hundred countries for centuries.
I have an idea...lifting of propaganda based, by Trump, crippling sanctions that only make the poorest suffer? But that is never the goal of capitalism.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)How about these simple solutions!
Get rid of bizarro currency controls. (Maduro refuses... says bizarro controls are logical and necessary)
Open fair and free elections. (Maduro refuses. Chavismo is all that the people need)
Allowing humanitarian aid to suffering Venezuelans (Maduro refuses, says Venezuela is the "land of plenty" )
Release political prisoners (Maduro says there are none. Only "criminals" )
Observe Chavez' very own Constitution. (Pfft! Whatever... That is why he called the ANC! It is time to take Bolivarian Socialism to the next level!)
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)entire state owned petrol company (with massive oil and gas reserves as some repeatedly mention) and the banks and the many businesses etc., ALSO will be sanctioned. See Iran sanctions for more info how that works.
Sanctions hurt the poor most, common knowledge. Then you get the folks made poorer by the sanctions to rise up...old imperialist tactic.
Not working lately in LA. But one can hope.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)Any suffering is courtesy of Maduro and the current Chavista regime.
Or is it your belief that the Banksters forced Chavez and Maduro to mortgage everything while pilfering anything of value?