Kenya is Going to the Dogs

A suggestion by a New Zealand woman to send dog food to starving Kenyans has been met with outrage:

Describing the idea as "absurd," "insulting," "offensive" and "immoral," officials vehemently rejected the donation for children threatened by famine and said they would put measures in place to prevent any similar assistance.

The would-be donor, Christine Drummond, has told the New Zealand media her donation differed from the pet food, though made with the same ingredients, and she and her children eat it.

It's not as if the woman is saying that we should put the food on the Kenyans' noses and make them sit still until we say "Good boy", she's simply saying that eating edible food which is safe for human consumption will save thousands of children's lives. Does that not make sense?

The idea has been rejected outright, and by the tone of the Kenyan responses, they are not a happy bunch:

"It is immoral, it is unacceptable," said Special Programmes Minister John Munyes...

"I am very much offended, it is in bad taste," he told AFP.

How would he know? He hasn't even tasted it. It very well could be deeeelish.

"Even if we have famine in this corner of the world, it does not reduce us to dogs," said Colonel Shem Amadi, the head of Kenya's National Operations Centre.

"People from that corner of the world have no respect for some of us," he told AFP.

"Oh no, it is horrible, it is terrible," said Khadija Abdalla, head of the Garrisa Provincial Hospital...It is insulting us because we are poor," she told AFP.

Fenris eats out of the same bowl as his God-damned dog, and he's not insulted. As a matter of fact, Fenris has more compassion for canine-Canadians than anyone I know.

You know what's way more insulting than eating dog food? Not accepting edible food and letting your children die.

So, is it really dog food this woman wants to send the starving peoples of Kenya?

"The first plan was to send dog biscuits and change the vitamins then when I heard there were so many little children I could not send them a bicky," The Press quoted her as saying.

So she created a powdered form of the ingredients -- freeze-dried beef, mutton, pork and chicken, deer velvet, green lip mussel, kelp, garlic, egg, whole grain cereals and cold-pressed flax seed flour -- to mix with water.

"The dogs thrive on it," Mighty Mix agent Gaynor Siviter told The Press. "They have energy, put on weight. It's bizarre but if it's edible and it works for these people then it's a brilliant idea. It beats eating rice."

Any person that uses the word *bicky* is alright in my books.

If the Kenyans are insulted at the notion of eating dog food, they are NOT going to like what the Koreans want to send them. Think about it.

It's a dogs world