Re: [Homesteadingfamily] Re: Food thefts starting worldwide!

This is INSANE! I'm sorry for the farmers who lost their animals!

People are getting hungry. I think it will get worse before it gets
better.

Angelia in OR

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM, susanherman_98325 <herman@olypen.com> wrote:

> This is absolutely true and each SEPARATE incident was reported to the
> local county sheriff, but in each incident they had no evidence to go on, as
> there was only intestines, skin, and offal left. Because each was separate,
> I don't think anyone is working on them. We have a very small force and
> they only work on incidents where there is a way to procede. Now these
> farmers are not saying that the meat was well wrapped or carefully handled,
> but was butchered in the field.
> Susan, in W.WA state with saanens
>
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> --- In Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com, "susanherman_98325" <herman@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Three local cows have been butchered right in the pasture around here.
> I'm in Western WA state. They all were pastured, with no dogs, just
> fencing. All were killed and slaughtered and cut and wrapped in the field.
> This info is from my neighbors.
> >
> > Susan in W. WA with saanens
> >
> > --- In Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com, "Jeanne Lookabill"
> <atasteofcreole@> wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42307165/ns/us_news-weird_news/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Greece nabs potato thieves from Bulgaria
> > >
> > > updated 3/28/2011 1:45:47 PM ET 2011-03-28T17:45:47
> > >
> > > THESSALONIKI, Greece - The farmer had to stay up at night to guard his
> > > field, and get help from police, but he's finally stopped the foreign
> > > marauders who were stealing his potatoes.
> > >
> > > Five men and four women from neighboring Bulgaria were arrested early
> Sunday
> > > while digging up and loading 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) of stolen
> potatoes
> > > into a van in Ochyro, a village in northern Greece near the Bulgarian
> > > border, police say.
> > >
> > > The farmer, who was keeping an overnight watch for the thieves, got
> help
> > > from police and border guards after he lost 14 metric tons (15.3 tons)
> of
> > > potatoes the previous week.
> > >
> > > More than 200 empty potato sacks and digging forks were found in the
> van and
> > > confiscated.
> > >
> > > Police are now looking for other thieves in the region - these ones
> > > targeting olive groves.
> > >
> > > Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeanne
> > >
> > > <http://community.webshots.com/user/atasetofcreole>
> > > http://community.webshots.com/user/atasetofcreole
> > >
> > > <http://atasteofcreole.wordpress.com/>
> http://atasteofcreole.wordpress.com/
> > >
> > > "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is
> not
> > > far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel
> is
> > > that it WILL make it possible to go elsewhere." - R. Heinlein
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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