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Georgie
12-30-2003, 05:28 PM
http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=8298


Zimbabwe's commercial beef cattle herd, which until three-and-a-half years ago earned more than R14-billion annually from exports, is on the verge of extinction as a result of the country's political upheavals. The national herd, bred over a period of 110 years for survival in Zimbabwe's harsh conditions, stood at 1,4 million animals in 2000 when President Robert Mugabe launched his farm invasion strategy. The invasions initially benefited landless peasants. But they, in turn, were removed from properties when government ministers and their relatives, judges, diplomats and pro-government journalists began laying claim to farms. "By the middle of this year only 210 000 beef cattle survived. At the last count there were fewer than 125 000 animals, but the number will be lower by now," Paul D'Hotman, chief executive of the Harare-based Cattle Producers' Association, said on Friday. "The entire national herd is on the road to extinction and the whole gene pool is being wiped out."

Magog
01-01-2004, 09:34 PM
never let a nigger manage anything.

Antiochus Epiphanes
01-03-2004, 10:30 PM
they were talking aboutthis on NPR. apparently the boers bred a breed of cattle specially suited to the environment. also, it was a big exporter to europe. but the chimps ruined it all, and now what few Euro-bred bloodlines still exist have been comingled with the domestic african cattle which have endemic foot and mouth disease.

consequence is the chimps are pretty hungry. OOPS, aint it natures way?

I call on all White folk remaining in Zimby to exit and let this sick nation collapse and make an example to the world.