Rebeca Monzo, Translator: Unstated
A peasant friend of mine, whose name I withhold, somewhat confused and
amazed by an article published in Granma on October 21 of this year,
which points to the remarkable decline in the number of cattle in our
fields (22,980 head as of the end of August this year), due to theft and
illegal slaughter of, sends me the following partnerships:
Neither fat nor skinny nor crazy.
Look under your bed,
There is a lost cow.
It is neither thin nor fat,
Nor is it crazy.
Look for it in your yard,
or maybe in your kitchen.
In the belly of your children,
Or in that of your dear wife.
That is where it should be
What they have already taken from you.
You raise it and care for it,
And it belongs to the State!
Granma also states that the lack of control is the common factor. They
say that due to the shortage of personnel to check the cattle in the
different provinces, disorder takes over and already there are a number
of farmers who work freely.
Wouldn't it be better, as the peasant who sends me his collaboration
says, that the first priority be the need to put on the table of every
family this food, that until 1959 was our most common nourishment?
According to CENCOP (Livestock Control Center), they lack bureaucrats to
check the country's more than 26,000 landless livestock owners. Hence
the high number of animals along the road or grazing in improper areas
exposed to accidents, or provoking them, as well as inciting crime.
November 17 2011
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