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Food Health
One of the rules of the group is that when who watched the video. The comment says:
posting an advert or sale for any farm
produce, you must indicate if it’s organically “I am a farmer who traditionally raises
made, a hybrid, or outright inorganic. Failure chicken in Kenya; let me say it is hard.
to do so will make the admin delete your People really don’t know how bad the
post. Obviously, as humans, people forget commercial broiler is bad, it is a GMO
sometimes to make a clear indication of animal, pumped with drugs. they see my
whether their farm produce is organic or not. chicken, what we call “kienyeji”, and turn
away saying it isn’t fat enough or why is it
Now, I think about this rule and I wonder to not cheap. The grain and chicken breeds I
myself how on earth we as Africans get to grow are traditional but people are scared
this tipping point where we have so much because I don’t have a known commercial
embraced the culture of death and corruption brand. We are good farmers out here who
from the West that we have to make a know what’s good for people, but they
distinction between food made with love really love supermarkets. Kenyans love
and life and food made with death through supermarkets because of their social status.”
agro-chemicals and disease spreading and
environmental hazards inputs. In God’s One thing that stares you in the face when
name, why can’t food just be food like it was you read this comment is the very same thing
with our grandparents? that has bewitched our African people since
the tentacles of modernity got hold of Africa.
Well, this is not a question that seeks some Many Africans still do not have a clue how
carefully crafted answers. It’s a question that bad and rotten is the system that runs this
seeks critical thinking among Africans. world. But we need to change our old and
bad habits which have inhibited our abilities
We have allowed the corporatization and the to see clearly and also make informed
monopolization of our food sector by foreign decisions about our foods.
companies that are connected to known
eugenicist families to take over our food Watch the video here:
production. But we are seeing the price our
people are paying, in their health, for such
irresponsibility.
It’s in your face
We recently did and shared a video on
YouTube where we talked about the various
foreign companies controlling the food
narrative of Africa and the world. We
received a comment from one of the people
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