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Do
you know how funny a person and his/her family would wake in the morning, have
their bath and would be ready to eat breakfast not caring on how the meat
appeared in the market for the parents to be able to purchase it and how it got
to the market in the very first place, all they care about is the meat they can
see on their plates and how well they are going to devour the meat, while so
much work as been done just to get the meat out of the flesh of an animals and
how it has been packaged for distributions to shops where they can buy the
item, the place where the killing of the animal is done known as the ABATTOIR.
There
are different sections in an abattoir and they include sections for meat
packaging, meat packing, and distribution of carcass to retailer. The reason
for creating a site where killing of the animals can be done was simply because
of the high demand of meat, and most abattoirs are located in areas that are
surrounded by water as this is to allow free flow of the remains of the
animal’s body into the water which in turn causes water pollution to the
neighboring communities or places, not only does it cause water pollution it
also disturbs the free flow of frequency of the river. In an interview with a
lecturer in Covenant University, Engineer D.O Omole, he enlightened us on the
effects of abattoir to the velocity of the water. According to him, during his
masters programme he chose to do the research work on this topic in developing
countries saying that from his observations, there has arisen a degradation of
the environment as a result of too much waste load going into the river.
Usually, a river purifies itself from waste, however, when the waste becomes
too much, then the river can no longer purify itself making the water unsafe
for any form of use.
Ways
to stop this pollution include introduction of the Bio-gas measures to purify
the odour that comes from the abattoir site but for abattoirs that have bio-gas
system they can make use of the waste as a means of getting something useful out
of the animals blood, carcass, or bones. For instance the blood of several animals can be used for preparation
of pig food, fish food and many other animal food, the carcass can be used as
fertilizers to nourish the food for the crops to grow. These are some of the
positive ways to neutralize the negative side of the abattoir.
There
are laws and regulations that have been put in place for the running of an
abattoir but in Nigeria, the rules and regulations laid down by the government
have not been followed because this people working in the abattoir need the
money to take care of their family. So to them, it is a means of income even if
the smell of the environment is hazardous to their health. In a research done
in the USA on how jobs are created for the unemployed in the country, over 52,700
workers can be useful in an Abattoir without care about the risks as a result
of this work.
The
government should try and refacilitate several abattoirs in their countries so
as to not only monitor the way they are doing things but also to help the
families of those people working in the abattoir because as the saying goes “
if a man is satisfied he tends to do his job more than expected.
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