Posted on 01/31/2006 6:01:54 PM PST by blam
Kenyans are 'insulted' by dog food offer
By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
(Filed: 01/02/2006)
A New Zealand businesswoman has provoked outrage in Kenya by promising to ship 42 tons of dog food mix to feed starving children.
"It is immoral. It is unacceptable," said John Munyes, Kenya's special programmes minister, who is co-ordinating the response to the drought that has put up to four million people at risk of starvation. He added: "I am offended. It is demeaning."
Christine Drummond, a pet-food manufacturer, said she planned to send Kenya 6,000 emergency packs of Mighty Mix dog biscuit containing freeze-dried pork, beef, chicken and mutton as well as flax seed, green-lipped mussels and deer velvet.
Mrs Drummond claims to eat it herself and says she gives it to her children.
"I sprinkle it on my porridge in the morning, and also on my lunch or tea, and it just gives me that wee pick-up," she told The Press newspaper in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Kenya has declared a national disaster because of food shortages which followed poor rains.
Meat Digest: A politically correct way of saying "Various Animal Feces"
LOL!
Okay...and I'll save anything else they don't want, too.....;]
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