The leader of the South African Communist Party has accused poultry manufacturers of racism.
He said chicken past its best-before date was being recycled - thawed, washed and injected with flavouring - then sold to shops in black townships.
A spokesman for the poultry industry admitted the practice takes place, but said it was both safe and legal.
The meat is removed from major chains of supermarkets and is re-distributed to spaza shops - smaller, family-run shops which serve black communities - and independent wholesalers.
'Nothing racist'
"I can tell you now that more than 80% of ordinary black South Africans, they get their food from the spaza shops which means that you are actually selling rotten meat to black people," Blade Nzimande said.
"We just find this deeply offensive and racist, frankly."
A spokesman for the poultry industry agreed that the process of recycling chicken did take place, but said it was legal and that all manufacturers guaranteed the safety of their products.
"There's nothing racist about this process," Kevin Lovell told the BBC's Martin Plaut.
He added that the chickens were tested and certified by the producers before being sent out again and that these standards were actually higher than those required by the department of health.
But he also accepted that re-worked chicken did not go on sale in major supermarkets, which served the country's wealthier suburbs.
According to the South African Press Assocation, Mr Nzimande has called for an enquiry into the practice.
2 comments:
It´a bitch being poor. It´s called being at the end of the food chain. Not everyone can afford KFC like good old blade.
I have a word of advice to the poor niggas out there. Vote the ANC out of power, install a mainly white government, and soon, even you will be able to sink your rotten fangs into a juicy leg or two of Colonel Sanders finest
"But he also accepted that re-worked chicken did not go on sale in major supermarkets, which served the country's wealthier suburbs."
I don't know about that... I don't eat Pick n Pay chicken anymore because something was just not right with it. I also haven't eaten Woolworths' chicken breasts for several months now, because it tasted suspiciously like Jik (bleach). And when I saw these reports, I realised that they could be doing the same, because Jik contains CHLORINE...
That is the stuff they used to gas people in Auschwitz or wherever, and it also gives you cancer.
@Anon, I don't think they will ever vote them out. They still haven't caught on that the fridges, houses and cars promised to them in 1994 will never really fall from the skies. Even if they did, like Zuma told 30,000 earlier this year: if they stop voting for the ANC, their ancestors' spirits will haunt them and make them sick!
Besides if that doesn't work, they'll just do the election fraud thing. Failing that... clinging to power like Robber Mugarbage and all the rest of them. Remember: "God was there when the ANC was created" and "the ANC will rule until Jesus comes".
The blacks are just too stupid to stop voting for them. An eventual civil war between all the black parties is much more likely.
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