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Food Health
Food Health

WESTERN AGRICULTURE

IS KILLING AFRICA

By Rutendo Matinyarare, Harare Zimbabwe

has grown its herd to 32
million, six times larger than
ountries with the biggest In 1960 when Chad got
cattle herds in Africa independence, it had the Zimbabwe’s 5.6 million that

Cinclude Ethiopia, Chad, same number of cattle as are raised using Western
and Sudan, each boasting over Rhodesia, at 2 million cattle. methods such as vaccination,
30 million cattle, all raised After 53 years, Chad, utilizing hybridization and pen feeding.
using traditional methods in traditional techniques, no

semi-desert regions. vaccinations and no injections, A cow in Chad is valued at an

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