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Zimbabwe Mulls Serving Up Elephant Meat to Stop Food Shortages
allAfrica ^ | 9/16

Posted on 09/16/2024 2:19:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway

FacebookTwitterWhatsAppFlipboardLinkedInRedditEmailShare The government is considering culling its elephant population to address food shortages and combat the effects of an El Niño-induced drought.

Farai Maguwu, Director of the Center for Natural Resource Governance, expressed concerns that the proposal to cull elephants would attract widespread condemnation, much like Namibia's decision. Zimbabwe has about 100,000 elephants with a carrying capacity of about 45,000 and is unable to sell some of the jumbos because of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

The country is among five southern African nations heavily impacted by the drought, leaving millions food-insecure. Namibia's decision to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, to provide food for drought-affected populations was controversial.


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: africa; bushmeat; cull; drought; elephant; elnino; rhodesia; zimbabwe
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To: nickcarraway

Guess they done ate up all the dogs and cats! Sad and in a country where everyone is a millionaire. We headed there cept we got no elephants.


21 posted on 09/16/2024 3:01:20 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: BenLurkin

I remember the big concerts and fundraisers to ‘feed africa’ and the result is huge overpopulation and suffering followed by the bleeding hearts importing these people to Europe to be used as modern slaves. Good times.


22 posted on 09/16/2024 3:02:56 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: nickcarraway

Let’s see how PETA responds.


23 posted on 09/16/2024 3:06:35 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: nickcarraway

The elephant is only non-simian land animal that can recognize itself.

There is something to be said of for that.

Elephants can recognize other elephants that they have not seen in years and they also recognize humans that they have not seen in years.

I don’t think we should be killing animals that display traits of human like intelligence.


24 posted on 09/16/2024 3:15:02 PM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: nickcarraway

Drought, huh. The biggest threat to the food supply is corrupt government leaders.


25 posted on 09/16/2024 3:15:50 PM PDT by bgill
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To: qaz123

[New leadership started asking old farmers to come back. Work their old farm, can’t own it, but grow some food. Not sure how many went back. Don’t think many did.]


Ownership is a social construct. The piece of paper they hand you doesn’t confer ownership. The recognition of ownership claims by the overwhelming majority of the leadership and population does. Until that happens, no foreign farmer will risk his time and money in Rhodesia.


26 posted on 09/16/2024 3:16:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: nickcarraway

The government of Zimbabwe couldn’t manage a lemonade stand, much less a country.


27 posted on 09/16/2024 3:19:38 PM PDT by Bayan
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To: nickcarraway

8 months ago, elephants were dying due to drought. This may be Zimbabwe’s Dust Bowl era.

https://apnews.com/article/elephants-zimbabwe-drought-climate-change-el-nino-20c834b57cd424aea3660740f5772402


28 posted on 09/16/2024 3:21:10 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Pontiac

Thank you!

This twisted world gets uglier by the day.
Nothing is cherished!!

Cherished, sentient creatures!
Those who know me will remember my amazing elephant collection. I even got to ride one! All lost to Almeda.
Over the years I got gifts from loved ones of elephants. Fabulous ones!! I miss them so. My social climbing half sister sent me a purse made of elephant hide...I thought it was a disgusting gesture. I couldn’t throw it out. I packed it away for 40 years and finally decided to honor the elephant and use it.

We aren’t allowed to cherish anything anymore. It’s all too fleeting.
BABIES lives.. don’t matter. We even destroy our cherished sexuality now! I cherished being a mother and wife and woman!!

I cherished my country! Patriotic is a dirty word.
My God.
How did we come to this?


29 posted on 09/16/2024 3:21:35 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: jdt1138

[I remember the big concerts and fundraisers to ‘feed africa’ and the result is huge overpopulation and suffering followed by the bleeding hearts importing these people to Europe to be used as modern slaves. Good times.]


They’re not enslaving Africans. They’re enslaving Europeans to feed these migrants, who are way more likely to be on the dole.


30 posted on 09/16/2024 3:26:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: nickcarraway

Let them starve. They created their misery they can enjoy it.


31 posted on 09/16/2024 3:37:12 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: nickcarraway

Juxtapose all this idiocy for their out of control continuing inflation and destruction of real food producing farms for the Communist Mugabe (now thankfully dead)— with the following:

RJ Reynolds contracts and purchases burly (chewing twist) tobacco from Zimbabwe at cheap prices, when they could be buying from US farmers. This is something not spoken of much- the globalist ripoff artists of Big Tobacco, glad to do business with thug controlling Marxists. Mugabe had huge accounts in Geneva.


32 posted on 09/16/2024 3:37:13 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: dfwgator

I remember those days well. Grey’s Scouts, Crippled Eagle Club, trunk lines from SA phones, Zamboons mercs from Mozambique and on and on. Many Rhodesian were able to get Portuguese passports in the final days.
Those that stayed suffered badly.


33 posted on 09/16/2024 3:45:20 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: nickcarraway

Most food shortage issues are due to corrupt government and incompetent handling of something like this.

I wonder what the true story is.


34 posted on 09/16/2024 3:53:29 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Zhang Fei

There were asking some of the to come home. Live and work their old farms, but would never get actual ownership of the land like they used to.

That was actually happening in South Africa, in a way. People lost their farms because they were just taken. Some od the “new owners” asked/allowed the farmer to stay, work the farm, split the money. Although that was not common and the majority of farms and now, just weeds


35 posted on 09/16/2024 4:04:30 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: nickcarraway
Another option is invite white farmers to return and guarantee their safety and their ability to make a decent living.
36 posted on 09/16/2024 4:06:37 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: nickcarraway
Farai Maguwu, Director of the Center for Natural Resource Governance, expressed concerns that the proposal to cull elephants would attract widespread condemnation

Considering how long it takes elephants to grow to adulthood and how much food they require to do it, they could only do this once every few decades to feed a small percentage of their people for a few weeks or months. And they'd draw universal condemnation for it.

Free market economic policies and wiser farm policy would do a lot more for them.
37 posted on 09/16/2024 4:08:26 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: nickcarraway

When it was Rhodesia, wasn’t Zimbabwe the food basket of Africa?

I wonder what Elephant tastes like?

Can’t be any worse than some of the stuff I’ve eaten in restaurants, which is alleged to have been Chicken.

I’ve probably, unwittingly eaten Cat, Dog, Rat.

It wasn’t very good!


38 posted on 09/16/2024 4:14:20 PM PDT by old school
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To: nickcarraway

***The country is among five southern African nations heavily impacted by the drought, leaving millions food-insecure.***

Strange. I don’t think Rhodesia ever had such a problem till...


39 posted on 09/16/2024 4:16:51 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: AuntB
How did we come to this?

Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud

Modernist thinkers that convinced intellectuals that all that old, true and beautiful, all that had been honored by their parents and ancestors was foolish and antiquated.

Eventually most scholars were taken in and started teaching the new philosophy of nihilsim.

From there morality and simple thoughts of good and evil to be belittled and those who believed in God and the final judgement were ridiculed.

Nietzsche gave us people like Hillary Clinton and Slow Joe.

40 posted on 09/16/2024 4:20:28 PM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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