{"id":20039,"date":"2021-08-06T14:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20039"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:55:11","slug":"in-drought-plagued-northern-mexico-tens-of-thousands-of-cows-are-starving-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/in-drought-plagued-northern-mexico-tens-of-thousands-of-cows-are-starving-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"In drought-plagued northern Mexico, tens of thousands of cows are starving to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By\u00a0Kate Linthicum<\/a> – August 1, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

CAJEME, Mexico\u00a0\u2014 In the parched hills of southern Sonora, Marco Antonio Gutierrez paced around a clearing, counting the dead.There were seven rotting carcasses \u2014 jutting ribs and shriveled hides \u2014 and two sun-bleached skulls. Nine cows, felled by heat and hunger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing for them to eat,\u201d said Gutierrez, a wide-brimmed hat shading his downcast eyes. \u201cThere used to be big ranches here. Now it\u2019s pure sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years of extreme drought have turned large stretches of northern Mexico into a boneyard. Between starvation and ranchers forced to prematurely sell or slaughter their livestock, officials say the number of cattle in Sonora has dropped from 1.1 million to about 635,000.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an unimaginable loss for a state that is world-famous for its high-quality cows, and where beef is not just a central part of the diet and economy but also a tradition that binds families together.<\/p>\n

This is a place, after all, with a bull on its state flag, and where families gather every Sunday around their charcoal grills. Red meat is considered a birthright: It\u2019s not uncommon for folks here to eat beef three times a day \u2014 machaca scrambled with eggs for breakfast, arrachera <\/i>for lunch and carne asada for dinner.<\/p>\n

Gutierrez, 55, and pretty much everyone he knows was born ranching. By the age of 10, he and his friends had all learned from their fathers how to lasso, brand and even pull a calf from the womb.<\/p>\n

Now, as they desperately watch the skies for rain, they wonder if there\u2019s any future in it.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Kate Linthicum – August 1, 2021 CAJEME, Mexico\u00a0\u2014 In the parched hills of southern Sonora, Marco Antonio Gutierrez paced around a clearing, counting the dead.There were seven rotting carcasses \u2014 jutting ribs and shriveled hides \u2014 and two sun-bleached skulls. Nine cows, felled by heat and hunger. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing for them to eat,\u201d said Gutierrez, … Continue reading In drought-plagued northern Mexico, tens of thousands of cows are starving to death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,16032,16031,16030,1954,16029],"class_list":["post-20039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-horse","tag-disaster","tag-extreme-drought","tag-heat-and-hunger","tag-marco-antonio-gutierrez","tag-mexico","tag-sonora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20041,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20039\/revisions\/20041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}