Comments on: Doggy Style

By: JKE

JKE — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:20:27 +0000

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/655140

By: JKE

JKE — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:01:29 +0000

I am with Adrian & eclipse on this matter – the NZ woman apparently didn’t know any better and she wanted to help, not knowing the meaning of dog food in Kenya. Another point to mention of course is that her dog food surely isn’t as smelly as those red coloured dog meat rolls you can buy @ Uchumis & Co. I personally tasted both, the dry version + that meat roll and can reassure that while dry dog food is ok, that meat roll is just the perfect reason to eventually become vegetarian. Yani, I am also the guy who has worked on a sewage treatment plant so my standards are very low :-)

It still leaves dumbfounded, though, how someone actually tries to officially promote dog food as an interim solution to such a long term problem like hunger. I wonder if my father, who himself had to ask for food during WWII, ever thought about eating dog food.

By: shook1

shook1 — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:45:09 +0000

OK the dust will settle down after the New Zealand chik apologises to Kenyans.

Question is, what have YOU done?

I was disturbed when i learnt that the North Rift has surplus of maize and is selling to Tanzanian business men coz the Kenyan Govt cant buy…

By: Chrenyan

Chrenyan — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:31:22 +0000

@Dreddlocked1
Bless your soul, I’d read it and was looking for a way to upload it. It’s gripping stuff. I hope your site can handle some heavy traffic ‘coz I’ve just sent that link to about 40-odd pals of mine. Thanks a heap.

By: Dreddlocked1

Dreddlocked1 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:54:26 +0000

http://www.2kat.com/Githongo_s_Report.pdf

And the rest of the country is left to eat dog food (if they eat at all)…Over 3 million euros unaccounted for…

By: acolyte

acolyte — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:53:26 +0000

Where do I start?First of all much as that woman’s heart may have been in the right place she is still a kubaff!I mean first of all we do not eat dog food, we may not have the time and know how to deal with the raw ingredients.She should have jsut sent a donation to WFP,Red Cross and whomever else was helping, not the gvt coz they would use the money to fuel their SUVs as they go to take publicity shots of them making meaningless donations.
As a future policy analyst one thing that I have to say is that we need a good long term food policy.It is pathetic how due to bad infrastructure some farmers are throwing away their yields,in other areas the government can’t buy all the grain available.Yes people in all areas cant farm then why not encourage other viable economic activities in those areas?
The Kenyan government reminds me of a deer that stands in the middle of the highway waiting for a truck to run it over.A lot of what happens in Kenya does not occur out of the blue, there are signs but it seems no one pays attention.I think it is time Kenya moved towards technocracy as democracy seems to be doing us little good as seen by the way MPs are messing up public policy.
As for the New Zealander she can go to the dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Keguro

Keguro — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:20:22 +0000

Shiroh raises an interesting question: do we contribute to our own status as victim? If we elect thieves, for example, are we victims of corruption?

It seems to me it’s not simply an issue of starving right now, but a deeper question of how we understand culture, modernization, and responsibility. Should pastoralist groups (some, but not all of the affected) change their lifestyles to fit into the current economy? For that matter, should the people in Eastern province “move” to more fertile lands?

I suspect the answers are both rational and irrational. We’d have to think about land tenure and inheritance, about the ways we think about culture as rooted in a specific place or practice, and about the strange, perhaps irrational, compulsion to die “on one’s own land.”

I think it’s easy for we who come from the fertile highlands to misunderstand other parts of the country and other people’s practices. Even when we move to the city, we plant at least one crop, be it even one maize plant. However, these questions have a long history; we’ve been trying to figure out the tradition-modernity thing for a long time.

And I also think it’s easier for we who live in urban centers, might visit shags or even plan to retire there, but don’t live there, to misunderstand a mindset that says, “this is home. I was born here. I will die here.”

Yes, we can and should assign responsibility to ourselves. At the same time, we have to recognize our failures to build national coalitions across ethnic lines. (Long rant about ethnic isolationism, but that’s another topic.)

By: Mo

Mo — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:31:44 +0000

its sad that on one side of the country there is too much food while on the other side there is none. the lady offering us her “generous” contribution of powdered concoctions as food aid probably thinks africans are so desperate we are one step from eating each other…stupid bitch made me angry.

By: Shiroh

Shiroh — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:55:08 +0000

Lets be honest about this starving people. While i do sympathise with the situation and that mother nature has been hostile to them. Don’t you think they themselves can apply a bit of Charles Darwin!
“Those who will not survive will die”

How do you think this people will ever liberate themselves from their endangering hunger? Do they owe themselves any responsibility to shift to better places for example?

Don’t mention the word Government when responding however great the urge is . Remember what is said about complacency? It is the greatest evil of times.

By: mruhya

mruhya — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:41:05 +0000

why all the controversy? aren’t there dogs dying in Kenya too?

;)