Das Sterben der Esel

The long tale of the donkey

(found at Le Monde Diplomatique)

"In Mediterranean countries, a combination of automobile mania and contempt for our peasant, agricultural past means that the ancient mule and donkey culture is in crisis. In Greece the number of donkeys (including the unique breed of Arcadian donkey known to Homer and Xenophon) fell by 96.4%, from 508,000 to 18,173, between 1955 and 2006 and is still falling."

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