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Vanuatu: A plantation owner who found his dead cow's stomach was full of leaves, bits of cloth and plastic is convinced that the cause of death is not the cow eating rubbish, but witchcraft!
It was my first time to see such things as people tell me of how black magic is used to kill people in similar way, that is removing intestine and replacing them with dirt,Sara plantation owner Abel Stallon told the Daily Post.
I think a witchcraft practitioner must have tried out his magic on my cow to see if it worked,Mr Stallon said.
The Department of Livestock disagrees, noting that there have been a number of cases of plastic, from plastic bags, cloth and similar objects killing cattle.
Black magic causes death of a cow? - Vanuatu Daily Post, 27th January 2005.
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1: Posted by: Red Wolf | January 28, 2005 9:01 AM
It seems that cows will eat anything. You can buy cow magnets to help prevent Hardware Disease (the metal bits they eat). It's not going to help with the plastic, but it does put paid to the clueless Mr Stallon's argument.
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