- Note - This is the biggest load of rat poop we've seen
in years. When governments are threatened with strangeness, they begin
to lie and fabricate. Argentina's SENASA is clearly a government mouthpiece.
The first version of the 'rodent' coverup story which came out a couple
days ago, claimed all the mutilated cattle had 'starved to death' and were
then gnawed on by rats. Honest. However, that version insulted Argentina's
world-class cattle farmers so blatantly - as if they are too dumb to notice
their cattle are starving to death - that the 'starvation' part of this
pathetic piece of disinformation was dropped. Now, we are left with the
assinine claim that rodents are killing, mutilating and draining all the
blood out of hundreds animals, including cattle, horses, guanacos and even
wild boar. -ed
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- Rats Behind Mysterious Argentine Cattle Mutilations
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- BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters)
- Recent mutilations of cattle and horses in the Argentine countryside
were the work of rodents, scientists said on Monday, not ritualistic slayings
by extraterrestrials or vampires as some farmers feared.
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- Argentina's national food and animal health inspection
service Senasa sent its own "X-Files" scientists to the remote
plains to look into the deaths of farm animals found mutilated and drained
of blood. Frightened farmers claimed to have seen bright lights and UFOs
in the area where the deaths occurred.
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- But Senasa officials said the dozens of livestock whose
genitals, tongues and other organs appeared to have been removed with surgical
precision were victims of rodents, foxes or other animals.
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- Senasa said the farm animals likely died from common
infections and wild animals later mutilated the corpses.
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- "We see these as natural deaths (and) there is clear
evidence of the presence of rodents and birds which led us to our conclusions,"
Senasa President Bernardo Cane told reporters.
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- The strange circumstances surrounding the deaths -- one
horse's hoof had a circle drawn into it and some animals were surrounded
by charred grass -- led some locals to insist the deaths were the work
of little green men, vampires or a satanic cult. Senasa gave no explanation
for the burned grass and the circle on the hoof.
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- Senasa said its specialists conferred with scientists
in Texas who had investigated similar cases in the 1970's and arrived at
a similar conclusion.
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