HUMAN CHUPACABRAS: MONEY, FASHION, VANITY, BLOOD AND EMU HELL

Emu chick (Dromaius novaehollandiae). Source: animalphotos.me.

By Gundhramn Hammer, Yudit E. Ruíz Sánchez & Blanca I. Ruíz Sánchez 

June 15, 2017 

People will do just about anything for money. For money they do not hesitate to sell their souls, assuming that they had one before they did so. 

And humans are ingenious when it comes to figuring out ways to make money.  

Emu farming is a good example of this. 

For some people, coming from the poverty-stricken side, when employed by the well-off, emu farming is just a job to feed their hungry families. For others, the kind whose heart is made out of stone and unconcerned about those beyond their flock, is a matter of investment which is done with the chief idea of making a lot of money.  

For those folks, some as cold as exterior space, in the fashion and cosmetic industries, emu farming boils down to bird skins and oil to make more money as well. And for people whose weak egos feed off vanity, this unsustainable industry is a grand feast because it allows them to show off their economic power to the someone else´s eyes in a world of finite resources.  

No matter what, emu blood is the common denominator for all of these people. 

In the meantime emu blood keeps flowing down. 

But being such as it is, emu farming has a few skeletons in the closet. When a piece of this blood-laden emu cake is put under the microscope, you may be in for a surprise. You could dig out some shit.  

Since emu farming is becoming big business worldwide, when legally teamed up with people aparently legal above ground in order to hide the hides wrapped in a few hundreds of Panama Papers, there are some folks who belong to the transnational mafia who find this livestock industry an easy way to do some money laundering.

Moreover, in some countries such as India, emu farming is not only on the rise, but is also becoming a “national investment scam”, according to Narasimhan & Subramanian (2012). 

Flocking birds of the same feather, besides money and animal blood, all of these human chupacabras also have another thing in common. They all behave like biological robots, as if there were mere pieces of walking meat to do what they do without ever thinking about any ethical and moral implications when they do what they do: “harvest” the birds. It is all done for the money! 

But for the emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and other ratite birds (e.g., ostriches: Struthio camelus) at the end of this bloody line is always HELL!! 

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References  

Narasimhan T.E. & Subramanian N.S. (2012). Fraud-hit emu farming industry flies North. Business Standard News. Available at: http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/fraud-hit-emu-farming-industry-flies-north-112091800043_1.html. Accessed: June 15, 2017.