Lebanese consumers learn they are eating sh**
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
“They are feeding us shit,” literally – not figuratively – as informed by Health Minister Wael Abu Faour, who revealed during a press conference on Tuesday November 11, that samples taken from restaurants and supermarkets across Lebanon contained traces of “human excrement and sewage water.”
Abu Faour’s statement was the first “formal” acknowledgement by the Health Ministry of a serious case of food contamination in the country. It came after years of neglect by the state’s administrations towards their responsibility to protect the people and their health.
It seems that elites within the system were actively covering for merchants to the extent that the head of the Lebanese Traders Association, Nicolas Chammas, has often said that merchants “are obeyed and they obey no one.”
The public was not totally oblivious to this truth. The media, reports by the Consumers’ Association, and a number of experts and academics have recently uncovered hundreds of scandals, facts, complaints, and crimes committed by well known merchants and companies.
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