Dog food plan for Kenyan orphans

Dog food plan for Kenyan orphans 'insulting'

Wednesday February 1, 09:59 AM

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An offer to send dog food to help feed starving orphans in Kenya has been dismissed as "culturally insulting".
Christine Drummond of the Mighty Mix company in New Zealand offered to donate 6,000 emergency packs of dog food mixture to help feed orphans in the drought-hit country.
She claims the product is fit for human consumption and will be labelled as a "nutritional supplement" rather then dog food.
"I made it out of ingredients the children are used to eating, so the main bulk product is corn," Drummond was quoted as saying.
"I've made a difference with the New Zealand dogs and I believe I can really make a difference over in Kenya."
But her offer has been slammed by the Kenyan government as "culturally insulting" to a country where being called a dog is one of the worst insults.
"Kenyan kids are not so desperate as to eat dog food," Kenya government spokesman Alfred Mutua said.
"The offer was very naive and culturally insulting given the meaning of dogs in our culture," he said.
"We understand where she was coming from, and we appreciate, but it is culturally unacceptable."

[Amiraa]

Allahi ster....yukh t'foo 3lihom....that is degradin and sooooo morally wrong on so many levels...allahi 3tihoum a'dell inshallah....

[Ghazala]

Sometimes these do-gooders really talk cr@p.....

if its fit for human consumption and its nutritional....why the hell did she have to mention that it was dog food???
why not just say that she came up with the mixture and that she wanted to donate it?

[Ghazala]

Its probably got Mighty Mix written all over the packets

[freemocy]

This is very humiliating and dehumanizing..How could she think to feed kenyan orphans with dog food? llah ya3ti lbabak la7la9em

[Amiraa]

Originally Posted by freemocy

llah ya3ti lbabak la7la9em

LOL....