SELLING EDIBLES NEAR & AROUND INSANITARY PLACES...GOOD?

You send someone to buy you food. He returns, you thank him and take the food. Then you begin to eat: "Wow. This food tastes very good. I can't just let it finish"... on and on are the praises you give to the food and the hands that prepared it. Then the next time you meet the boy who did the service: "Thanks buddy. The food was special... where did you buy it?". He replies "from the woman who sells on the drain across the street".

Immediately, you begin to feel vomit but can't help it. You know too well the drain he's talking about, and picturing the state of the drain choked with filth..." poisoned food", you uttered out.

Yes, the above illustration is truly going on in most parts of the country. Many food vendors, due to the hustle and bustle of city life and the need to support their family financially, hardly care about where they must sell, whether near a dusty road, on or near a gutter or in an environment where the air is polluted. They're preoccupied with the thought of making only money and not the adverse health conditions these insanitary places has on their food and consumers. Interestingly, some people flock to these vendors for meals, unaware of the danger gnashing its teeth at them.

They will contend that "such food is delicious and its price very affordable"... What devil's spell is this?

Well, the advise to them is: "know that a little stench from the gutter, or dust from the road which yourselves feel and see, can contaminate the whole food sold".

Ghanaians from now on must be more conscious of where, when and from whom they purchase their edible goods. The stomach and other internal organs is much sensitive to the food we ingest in or other materials entering it. Having allergies should even tell you more about the stomach's sensitivity. Selling edibles near and around insanitary places is not good, period.

It's difficult to change people's minds from an activity they already delight in. But with time, a more favourable response will be realized.

Everyone fears to get sick. Let alone contract diarrhea or skin alterations, etc., all of which are symptoms of perhaps a partially or wholly poisoned food. It is therefore a wise thing to check for the healthiness of food before making purchase.

When the citizens of a country are strong and in good health because of the food they eat, development springs up and man in his clean environment prosper the most.

Let us all sell around and buy from sanitary places that we may gain the Energy and a Sound Mind to Protect The Environment.