The days when chicken and poultry used to be an
exclusive preserve of the rich or a delicacy for
Sundays, Christmas and very special festivities are
long gone as its consumption has become a huge
business and themainstay for several businessmen
and women. Ruth Tene Natsa writes on the risks
involved in eating these imported foods.
The warning by the National Agency for Food and
Drug Administration (NAFDAC) that the
consumption of imported poultry and turkey
products may lead to cancer, kidney diseases and
hypertension should be a deterrent to all to avoid
such products but not yet as Nigerians continue to
consume the products.
According to the NAFDAC boss, Dr Paul Orhii, the
risk in the products is as a result of substances
that can predispose one to kidney, liver and lung
diseases as well as certain types of cancers and
drug resistant bacterial infections among others.
A major disadvantage to the consumption of
imported poultry foods and products aside its
health implication is the dearth of the nation’s
poultry markets as farmers have to contend with
low market demands for locally grown chickens
which are cheaper, healthier and more accessible.
These challenges are further exacerbated by the
nation’s inefficient power system which limits
farmers’ abilities to effectively store frozen
products, poor storage facilities, a low market
demand structure as consumers show a preference
for the imported products and a corrupt system
where criminals in the guise of business men
smuggle frozen products into the country at the
risks of local poultry farmers.
Another report that the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN) spent N187 billion on the importation of
wheat and fish, among other goods which can be
conveniently produced in Nigeria leaves one
wondering if Nigerians have a bias for success or
development because while our farmers continue
to lack markets for their products, demands for
foreign goods and services continue to soar,
enriching the importers. The fact that Nigeria
remains a viable market for the many foreign
chocolate testify to that. Unfortunate results of the
love for foreign made goods are the loss of jobs,
loss of foreign exchange, importation of diseases,
as warned by the NAFDAC, poor development of
the nation’s manufacturing and agricultural
industries, among several others.
LEADERSHIP Friday’s efforts to trace the reason for
the high demand for imported chicken and turkey
revealed Nigerians love for foreign products,
demand for quality, a social status symbol, poor
manpower development, porous borders, and the
get rich syndrome which is only concerned about
enriching the importers at the expense of the
farmers. According to a housewife, Mrs Nwafor, the
love for foreign poultry is the fact that it saves one
time on dressing and packaging which the local
farmers often do not have the patience to do.
“I love buying the imported chicken and turkey
because it is usually clean and easy to pick up and
cook rather than going to the market to wait for
those mallams to kill and dress poultry for you.
Also it makes it easier in that one can buy in
smaller affordable quantities.
“I have never seen locally produced or dressed
turkeys and they are usually more expensive if one
has to buy the whole. But in the markets, one can
buy just a wing or a thigh without fears of
emptying one’s bank account. Also, I do not think
that our farmers can sufficiently produce all the
poultry this nation requires.”
Reacting to the health implications of eating the
foreign products, she queries, “If they are
dangerous, why do the government allow them to
import them? These products come through our
seaways, they get into our ports and borders and
at the end are sold in open markets. If they are
that dangerous, why are efforts not made to arrests
those responsible; why are they not destroying or
seizing those goods in the markets after they have
successfully escaped the customs at the borders?”
http://yesreport..com/2015/07/eat-imported-chicken-turkey-risk-cancer.html?m=1
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