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[–] marx@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here is the actual article.

In the midst of the escalation of prices, the proposal arose to market donkey meat, sold for about 7,500 pesos per kilo. Butcher Gonzalo Moreira, from Buenos Aires, described the effects of the crisis on the sector. "We are facing a major recession. I don't know a merchant who isn't going through difficulties. The sector is under a lot of pressure, even without major price variations. Everything is paid by card, pushed forward," he told Radio 750.

It is industrial production and sale of donkey meat pushed by flesh merchants in cities like Buenos Aires, not poor rural smallholders eating their own donkeys for survival.

Your interpretation of this is ignorant and frankly kind of racist. You think most Argentinians are destitute subsistence farmers plowing their fields with donkeys? Get a grip.

Also I 1000% promise you that vegetables are significantly cheaper to obtain than fucking donkey meat. This is just butchers trying to stay in business.