Cuban Communists: Add Rodent Meat ‘to the Family Dinner Table’

Breitbart ^ | 12/24/2020 | Frances Martel

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A government television broadcast in Cuba this week urged citizens to eat guinea pig and other rodents, suggesting rodent meat is more nutritious and “sustainable” than pork or beef, Cuban outlets reported on Wednesday.

The Communist Party has presided over major food shortages in Cuba for decades, beginning almost immediately following the Cuban Revolution in 1959. In recent years, the Castro regime has blamed President Donald Trump for extensive food shortages and failed distribution of government-mandated rations. While the Trump administration has imposed significant sanctions on the regime in response to the increased frequency of human rights violations against pro-democracy dissidents in the Obama era, these sanctions have targeted elite individuals and military-linked corporations, not sources of food for the general population.

[metmom]

Food shortages?

In a country where food can be grown year round?

And they are blaming the US?

What a joke.

It goes to prove that most food shortages are man made.

[a fool in paradise]

There’s more meat on that than the grubworms that our Leftist masters are trying to convince first world Western nations to eat.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe they should grow something they can eat rather than tobacco or sugarcane for rum.

[Impala64ssa]

Rat. The other white meat.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Since we are going communist now, maybe I can get a commie recipe book from there to help me through the next years.

[metmom]

Ya think?

Course, they may not have any choice.

Just like in the old Soviet Union where you had no say in what you did for a living. Your job was what they assigned you to, not even what they assigned to you, if you see the difference.

[Impala64ssa]

In a country where food can be grown year round?
I remember listening to the late great Barry Farber. About 10 yrs before the Berlin Wall came a-tumblin' down he practically predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, during the grain shortage crisis the USSR faced around 1980 and had to turn to us to avoid possible famines. Mr. Farber demonstrated all anyone needs to know about why socialism is an abject failure. The USSR where almost 50% of the people live off the land was in such dire straits they had to turn to us, where at most 4% of the people live off the land.

[Beagle8U]

Americans have been eating squirrels since they got off the boat.

[a fool in paradise]

They’ve eaten it for centuries in Peru

[Gene Eric]

Was on G Gordan Liddy’s menu...

I had the chance to chat with him. Nice man.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[faithhopecharity]

its in the DNC platform we hear? Al Gore will be put in charge

[Chickensoup]

Guinea pigs are called covey and have been a central and South American food for many years.

[Chickensoup]

Guinea pigs are called covey and have been a central and South American food for many years.

Sort of the rabbit of that area.

[sockmonkey]

,*** There’s more meat on that than the grubworms that our Leftist masters are trying to convince first world Western nations to eat. ***

I forget if it is the NDAA or, Covid Relief Bill that had an allocation of millions to see how we would adjust to eating insects/worms for protein.

[ArcadeQuarters]

This is what I call the “eating pets” stage of communism.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Fellow Freepers, don’t say it can’t happen here. It did in Ukraine.

[Swiffer_Ralf]

As tasteless as it may appear urea can be distilled from urine.

The ability to use it for good crop and hydro, aqua, and aeroponic systems is well documented on the web.... My2cents worth. 🤯

[Does so]

“This is what I call the ‘eating pets’ stage of communism”.

“Affordable Protein” would be restored under President Commie-la.