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Right-wing influencers used Twitter to spread the claims and related memes, with Laura Loomer posting about "20,000 cannibalistic Haitians" eating cats and dogs in Springfield and Texas senator Ted Cruz sharing a widely criticized meme showing two cats with the caption "Please vote for Trump, so Haitian immigrants don't eat us".
In another, a man said he’d heard that Haitians had been caught driving a van filled with 100 cats, which they intended to eat. “We’ve lost a whole bunch of cats,” he said.
According to Humane Society International, [6] Agence France-Presse, [7] and the BBC, [8] cat meat is not widely eaten in China. But in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces of the Lingnan cultural region, some—especially older—people consider cat flesh a good warming food during winter months. [9]
Ferrell is not Haitian, the outlet noted. ... “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” the Republican nominee said.
The Canton woman accused of killing and eating a cat has no known connection to Haiti or any other foreign country. Allexis T. Ferrell is charged with cruelty to companion animals, a fifth-degree ...
They also introduced such Haitian specialties as red beans and rice and mirliton (or chayote; a pear-shaped vegetable) to the Louisiana Creole cuisine. [10] Since independence from France, the French influence has remained evident in the Haitian society, not only in the usage of the language but in the contributions to the cuisine.
Trump used the presidential debate to repeat unfounded claims that Haitian immigrants “are eating dogs and cats … eating people’s pets” in Springfield, Ohio.
Several schools and municipal offices in Springfield, home to some 20,000 Haitian migrants, were closed for the second day in a row on Friday due to bomb threats as a result of the national media ...