ZIMBABWE: SLAUGHTERING PETS FOR THE MEAT

CNN/AP:

Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, animal welfare activists say.

A man feeds scraps to his dogs in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Thursday. People are barely able to feed their pets.

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it could not feed surrendered animals or find them new homes and was being forced to kill them and destroy the corpses.

Animals, like people, are being hard hit by Zimbabwe's economic meltdown, with official inflation of more than 7,600 percent, the highest in the world. Independent estimates put real inflation closer to 25,000 percent and the International Monetary Fund has forecast it will reach 100,000 percent by the end of the year.

THIS IS JUST MORE PROOF THAT SOCIALISM IS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.