HUNDREDS FLOCK TO GOAT RACES
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:08 am
Hundreds Flock to the Goat Races
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tanzanians flocked to the country's annual goat races, a charity event pitting 60 of the beasts in a series of heats before they are slaughtered.
Most of the goats end up in the abattoir after the competition to raise money for water and farming projects, but winners get the chance to decide their goat's fate.
"I am incredibly happy because my goat won the race," owner Joerg Sonne said Saturday after the second race in the national stadium in the commercial capital Dar-es-Salaam. "We will try to enter this one on another race, or take it home."
Roasted goat meat is a popular food in Tanzania, where many people scratch a living as peasant farmers in one of the world's poorest countries.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tanzanians flocked to the country's annual goat races, a charity event pitting 60 of the beasts in a series of heats before they are slaughtered.
Most of the goats end up in the abattoir after the competition to raise money for water and farming projects, but winners get the chance to decide their goat's fate.
"I am incredibly happy because my goat won the race," owner Joerg Sonne said Saturday after the second race in the national stadium in the commercial capital Dar-es-Salaam. "We will try to enter this one on another race, or take it home."
Roasted goat meat is a popular food in Tanzania, where many people scratch a living as peasant farmers in one of the world's poorest countries.
