Donkey herds are dwindling as hungry Venezuelans slaughter them for food

[Bacchus4.0]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article215644840.html

A few years ago, there were so many donkeys, or burros, in the Venezuelan state of Falcón that they were a problem — herds everywhere, causing highway crashes and blocking airport runways.

But over the past three years, the herds have shrunk dramatically as thousands of burros have been slaughtered for their meat by Venezuelans suffering through a near-famine.

“There’s no more burros here,” said Odalys Martinez, a resident of the Paraguana Peninsula in northern Falcón.

The collapse of the Venezuelan economy is radically changing the eating habits in the oil-producing country, where large sectors of the population are being forced to pick through garbage and slaughter domestic animals to sate their hunger.

[GatoGordo]

1. Turned on to the fact that they were edible by Cuban doctors

Venezuelans typically don't eat burros, but Cubans have developed a taste for them.

Sadly, Venezuelans have taken up eating zoo animals too.

[Bayard]

2. Damn.......

After the U.S. is bankrupted, you gotta hope we are only reduced to eating fat politicians.....