Are Haitians Eating Pets?
No. This is homegrown misinformation
On September 10th, 2024, former President Trump claimed in a debate with Vice President Harris that immigrants to Springfield Ohio were eating house pets.
The truth is that there has been friction between the new Haitian immigrant community and long-time residents as up to 20,000 new residents have entered Springfield, Ohio over the past 4 years.
These Haitians are drawn by jobs with low to no education requirements in meatpacking and manufacturing. Many of these Haitians are in the US under a Temporary Protected Status order.
The initial accusation started with a Facebook post to a private Springfield, Ohio group by a resident named Erika Lee.
This post was then screenshotted by a twitter user named @buckeyegirrl who said:
This was then picked up by a Twitter account “EndWokeness” who claimed that “ducks and pets were disappearing.”
Note that it is likely that Twitter user “EndWokeness” is likely Right-Wing Activist Jack Posobiec.
The accusation was later amplified by Ohio senator and Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance.
It is possible that during debate prep, one of former President Trump’s aids gave him incorrect information about Springfield.
Pet abduction doesn’t seem to be happening in Springfield and Haitian culture does not view dogs and cats as food.
Additional note:
The City of Springfield resides in Clark County, Ohio. Clark County voted for President Donald Trump with 60% of the the vote in 2020.
It should be noted that one claim from EndWokeness is that “Springfield, Ohio will be every town and city in America if Kamala wins.” It appears that Springfield is a Republican district, in a Republican-leaning County, in a state with a Republican Governor.
It is highly likely that Ohio’s delegates will go to former President Trump in the November election.
I unfortunately lived in Haiti as a kid, my parents were marine biologists. Many wonderful places and people in the Caribbean; however, we left Haiti inside 3 months with a quickness. Very dangerous even in the eighties. I remember two things. Near total Lack of trees and red mud everywhere. The land was completely destroyed from over exploitation. Cross into Dominica and it’s completely different. Jamaica at this time was wonderful, where we spent the most time. That area has also taken a nose dive into crime. Haitians ate mostly chickens and fish. Jamaicans ate chickens, fish, goats, cows, land crabs. I don’t remember cats or dogs being on the menu ever and we were surrounded by normal average people. This eating pets thing is shit…. Now next to ODU there was the cheapest Chinese food joint around, 1qt chicken fried rice for 1.99 in 2000. Great deal. They actually got caught killing cats and putting it in the fried rice. So I ate cat, tastes like rabbit or chicken leg. Not something I like to remember though.
Going on an immigrant eats pets trope during election is just low. Plenty of real things to go after in immigration, drugs, crime, driving w/o licenses, dui’s etc but eating pets common.
Now you know who eats pets? Russian vdv from Buryatia and I have proof of that. Ammo boxes filled with skinned animals amongst the shit they left abandoned along the Kyiv Yirpin ring road and Zhotomyr highway.
That said I have seen people swack geese in Walmart stormwater ponds in Norfolk, funny I thought because I was a USFWS intern then, wanted to point out that it’s a federal crime. Honestly we killed migratory birds that refused to migrate so my give a shit meter wasn’t high. If you want to eat heavy metal infused air rats like seagulls or pond geese you Must be pretty desperate. I’ve seen homeless do this too. It’s pretty much doing everyone a public service whether you
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Mmm, I’ll agree that this is an exaggeration regarding pets being eaten, but there’s a lot of serious issues going on with all those Haitians dumped off in Springfield, Ohio and the same is happening elsewhere, like Pennsylvania as ex CIA operations officer Sam Faddis wrote about as well…
https://open.substack.com/pub/andmagazine/p/what-abc-news-is-hiding-haitians?r=2owyko&utm_medium=ios