Photo Credit: Caritas International
Posted on 12/11/2008 10:52:52 AM PST by NYer
.- Caritas Internationalis is warning that the crisis in Zimbabwe is so grave that people facing crushing food shortages are mixing cow dung with their food.
With pressure continuing to mount on President Mugabe to relinquish his hold on power, Zimbabweans are suffering the consequences of his government’s policies.
Besides the lack of food, people are also suffering a cholera epidemic and crippling hyperinflation.
Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight reports that "people in Zimbabwe are dropping dead on the streets from Cholera. They’ve witnessed people mixing cow dung with what’s left of their food to make it go further. This is poverty at its most dehumanizing."
Caritas plans to ramp up its aid operations across the country with hunger likely to increase after poor harvests.
A Caritas survey in October found 70 to 90 percent of households going hungry and the remainder on the brink of starvation. At least 5.1 million people are facing starvation out of a population of 13 million people. Additionally, nearly 14,000 cases of Cholera have been reported.
Knight also commented on the political crisis, saying, "Zimbabwe’s political impasse can continue no longer. An effective government that can rectify the policies that have put the country into this position must be established.
"The international community must maintain the pressure on Zimbabwe for an end to this crisis. We must also prepare ourselves for the implosion of the country and the catastrophe that will mean in terms of human suffering across the region."
Zimbabweans have faced discrimination in South Africa and other neighboring countries and Knight warned that they "must address the xenophobia directed at Zimbabwean refugees in their own countries."
"These are very challenging conditions for aid agencies to operate, but Caritas remains committed to delivering aid to the country in its hour of need," she said.
I imagine the cows are more valuable as a continuing source for milk. Instead of being a one time source for meat. Also I think you probably don’t get much prime meat off of the cattle there.
Of course they do, that means it has little or no value outside the borders of the state which dampens the desire to leave. Don't forget that under the old Soviet system it was a crime to possess US Dollars for this very reason.
If the dung exists, wouldn’t that mean that food is available?
“When my brother and I were boys, we used to bring the cow to milk in the pig pen. Pigs are actually fairly neat creatures, contrary to popular opinion, and poop in one corner of the pen. So the corner we milked the cow in was poop free. She would usually leave a couple of pies, which the pigs promptly ate up.
Not that I’m recommending it, but pigs are smart enough to know there is evidently a lot of nutrition in cow pies.”
My Golden Retriever eats cow pies all the time. Never hurt him none.
“...It’s good, though.”
Your dog is a smart blonde.
And kill their source of dung?
Unkind, but true. African democracy: "One man, one vote, one time."
Still, I suspect we're facing a payday in the USA for this last election.
Dinner.
Ever.
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Yes. Well, some of us did.
That's EXACTLY what I'd like the Kenyan, B. Hussein O., to do.
Eat sh*t.
Eat $h!t,millions of flies can’t be wrong...
Am I missing something here?
Fearless leader doesn't give a crap about the crap now.........but that may change im the future once he sees it is another thing for him to control.
Not to be an a-hole about this but if there is cow dung, couldn’t they eat the cow?
Angry, power hungary black man takes over and kicks out the whites. Interesting result.
And kill off their only source of food? :)
BINGO! This is where Racism got them.
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