Voices | South Africa’s poor are currently bearing the brunt of meat legislation that just doesn’t exist.
South Africa’s poor are currently bearing the brunt of meat legislation that just doesn’t exist. Furthermore, in a continuation of anti-poor legislation that has become the hallmark of our government, new legislation coming into effect next year will reduce the protein content of these so-called ‘meat’ products by 20%. Humans need protein to build their bodies and it appears the poor will be paying the same for less nutrition.
After the outbreak of the listeriosis in 2018, the previous minister of health’s repeal of all meat regulations on May 10 2019 seems to have been kept very quiet and I suspect the public have no idea of what is going on. And to make it worse, there was no new legislation introduced to replace it until April 4 2020. Until then we are all at the mercy of the processed meat industry and their patrons, the big national retailers.
DAFF has said that in April it will enact new meat legislation, which will see a radical reduction in the current content of animal protein used in processed meats from 75% to 60% in the one group and from 95% to 90% in the other.
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