[ad_1]
People collect blood from cattle. Photo: Reuters
Blockage in Venezuela due to corona virus. Since then, extremely poor people have lined up at the slaughterhouse in the western city of San Cristóbal. So they can only collect free proteins. And that is the blood of cattle.
Alejandro Romero, a 20-year-old mechanic, visits the slaughterhouse twice a week, Reuters reports. He worked in a local garage. I recently lost my job. In Venezuela, relief from the Nicolás Maduro government reaches people very slowly.
“I am collecting the food that is available,” said Alejandro Romero, distributing blood from the slaughterhouse into a cup of coffee.
Every day, 30 to 40 people come to the San Cristóbal slaughterhouse to obtain blood from cattle. But before the epidemic, these bloods were discarded.
“We are hungry,” said Baudilio Chacón, a construction worker who lost his job and became unemployed. I have four brothers and a 10 year old son. We all depend on blood to survive.
Beef blood is an ingredient in traditional Venezuelan “peach” soup. More people in neighboring Colombia are also leaning towards the Covid-19 crisis.
Venezuelans pride themselves on being a carnivorous nation. But now many people are not happy to be eating blood instead of meat. Although the price of a kg of beef is double the minimum wage.
The Venezuelan economy is now a symbol of hunger. The country’s economy has been suffering from ‘hyperinflationary impulses’ for six years. It is currently in a worse state due to the epidemic.
The increase in the consumption of animal blood in Venezuela is a manifestation of the deterioration of the country’s economy.
“It is not a virus that will kill them, but they will starve,” said Edison Arkiniges, director of the Citizen Action Group.
Ittefaq / ZH
[ad_2]
