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Animal sacrifice does seem to exist in Haitian culture, but not in the way racists are portraying it. I see no evidence that cats and dogs have ever been used. From what I understand, more common in some pockets of their culture would be sacrificing a chicken, and then cooking it and eating it. Which is the same thing anyone can do, just with extra religious steps...
I don't know about Haitian Voodoo, but Santeria, which comes from nearby Cuba and was similarly inspired by traditional African religions, definitely involves sacrificing a chicken for some rituals.
Santeria is practiced by many Cubans in Florida. Trump's Florida. DeSantis' Florida.
I don't hear anyone screaming about immigrants killing the chickens.
What I think is funny about this is that food is most often (or probably always) used, and then you're still allowed to cook and eat it. Basically anyone that eats meat complaining about animal sacrifice is completely lacking in self awareness.
I'm also guessing that a chicken raised by someone for a religious sacrifice is probably going to be treated a lot better while it's alive than a factory farmed chicken.
Which also led to the "Lukumi Bar", an actual legal term that sounds like the name of a tiki bar.
Basically, the city of Hialeah tried to ban the Lukumi church (alternate name for Santeria). The language of the law was neutral on its surface (banned slaughtering of animals in the city, but made exceptions for kosher, hunting, fishing, etc.). However, the transcripts of the town meetings around the law revealed it was pointed straight at the Lukumi church, like applauding the fact that they were banned in Cuba. Which maybe should have been a red flag to everyone at the time.
Since the Supreme Court hadn't yet been taken over by knaves, they told the city of Hialeah to go pound sand. You can't make a "neutral" law that carves out enough exceptions that it targets one specific group. And if you do, don't be so obvious about it at your city council meetings.