2023-04-21 05:08:11
“More than 120 kilograms of rotten meat have been seized in one of the butcheries in the Mosleh region, which feeds a large number of butcheries in Nabatiyeh. So what do people eat? Follow-up sources confirmed, “A good percentage of frozen Indian meat is spoiled, and many were poisoned because of it. It puts their lives at risk.” Are we facing a new food disaster, no less important than the economic disaster?
Of course, the situation is difficult in light of the prevailing exploitation due to the absent censorship, and if it does come, it comes too late. With the continuation of the public sector strike and the decomposition of the national currency, the extent of corruption has expanded. Hardly a day goes by without a food scandal. The economic crisis opened the door to corruption wide, and presented the owners of epics with pretexts for fraud. People’s health is in danger, so does exposing the corrupt legitimize accountability? What role do the ministries of agriculture and health play?
In Nabatiyeh governorate, there are four legal slaughterhouses and dozens of butcheries. It is legally affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, which supervises the widespread meat slaughterhouses and distributes meat to butcheries. However, the employees’ strike disrupted the work of oversight and supervision, which means that the Ministry’s employees do not carry out their duties and are unable to reach the slaughterhouses due to the fuel crisis, which pushes the slaughterhouses to act according to their whim. Uncontrollably. One of the slaughterhouses in the town of Sharqiya sells spoiled frozen Indian meat, and he buys a large number of Nabatean butcheries, including al-Musaleh.
The number of poisoning cases is increasing, and the poisoned people arrive at the hospital on their “last breath.” They spend a lot of money to treat poisoning. What is noteworthy is that no investigation was opened, nor was the presence of any patrol of the State Security Apparatus to take the statements of the poisoned, so that the story ended with taking medicines and painkillers.
Medical sources indicate an increase in cases of infection, whether from meat or chicken, which poses a great threat to health and food security. The sources ask about the role of the oversight authorities, saying that “arresting the minors will not solve the crisis. Most of the owners of slaughterhouses are subsidized, and no one dares to hold them accountable, even the owners of butcheries as well. A large number of these butcheries buy meat from slaughterhouses outside Nabatiyeh.
On the other hand, a source in the Ministry of Agriculture does not deny the bitter reality, attributing the reason to the ministry’s inability to monitor all butcheries, which reinforces food corruption, and here the people’s role is evident in exposing the fraud that occurred. He stressed that matters are heading towards danger, specifically in the issue of butcheries, where oversight is absent, explaining that oversight covers only four slaughterhouses: Nabatiyeh, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Bint Jbeil and al-Khiyam, and it also includes a large proportion of butcheries, where slaughter is carried out under the supervision of a veterinarian. However, the problem, according to the source, lies with the owners of the butcher shops themselves, as they sell frozen meat as “baladi”, and there is no strict control over them, indicating that the responsibility also rests with the Ministry of Health.
The source does not hesitate to say that “the danger is not in the frozen Indian meat, as it is subject to the supervision of agriculture and health, but rather in the issue of refrigeration in butcheries, so is it subject to the required standards and specifications or not?”
In fact, the agricultural observers are not able to cover all the butcheries due to securing gasoline and its high cost, which gave the owners of the butcheries an opportunity to cheat. According to the source, “We are facing a major crisis, and efforts must be combined with ministries and municipalities, so that things do not get out of control further. And the source admits that “the issue is relatively complicated, due to the inability to secure the requirements for disclosure.”
Once again, the crisis of spoiled meat has returned to the fore, and the rosary may be repeated more in the coming days. Traders are not satisfied and take advantage of the crisis to make profits, even at the expense of people and their health. .
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