Narco Wildlife

 
Ranches are popular in this northern Mexican region.  Some people make a living raising animals like cattle and goats to sell to meat markets and export to the United States.  Drug traffickers use ranches to hide away from law enforcement and to disappear bodies by literally feeding them to the lions.  Narcos have evolved from burning bodies or placing them in acid filled barrels to raising large, living carnivorous predators capable of devouring a human body in minutes.

Feeding a large predator like a lion is doubtfully more economical than the cost of matches, but whats frightening is that feeding a lion with enough bodies can be cheaper.  How many bodies does it take to feed a lion?  Based on some research, lions eat on average of 40 lbs (18 Kg) of meat a day and eat up to two times a week.  If the average human weighs 190 lbs (86 Kg), then the average body can feed a lion for more than two weeks.

Mexico's drug violence has killed over 23,000 people plus countless others who have gone missing and have never been found.  The feeding frenzy at narco ranches may be a huge contributor to the missing.  Now there's some food for thought.