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I didn't know about that, and it is hideous (and unfortunately typical of US military/hygienic attitudes). I think I'll be thinking about that all day -- a place in the mornes, the soldiers taking the pigs, and nothing to eat. :-(
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Mar 17th, 2006 at 06:37:46 AM EST
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And now comes the real kicker, the cherry on the cake! After the US troops had culled the entire Creole pig population they imported a couple of ten thousand US pigs into Haiti. Fantastic, gorgeous, big and rosy meat machines! These pigs were, obviously, meant to be raised and bred in the cooler regions of this globe like Central and Northern Europe and places like, you guessed it, Wisconsin. The first Haitian farmers who got them were told by their American friends that these pigs were best to be kept in air conditioned stables and needed to eat imported feeds. It was - no surprise - a disaster. Haiti has no stabile supply of electric energy, farmers don't have the money to live in air conditioned houses, let alone to build a/c stables - and much less still to feed the animals with imported feeds. The project was stopped immediately. Haitian peasants quickly dubbed them "prince a quatre pieds," (four-footed princes). ...

Creole pig:




"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

by Ritter on Fri Mar 17th, 2006 at 12:17:33 PM EST
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