Fallout from Vatican II. Used to be we Catholics couldn’t eat meat during lent.
Except for Balut.
Balut is meat not yet hatched from the shell
You may be right. “More than 93% of the population of Cape Verde is nominally Roman Catholic, according to an informal poll taken by local churches. About 5% of the population is Protestant. The largest Protestant denomination is the Church of the Nazarene.”