Killing to live or Living by killing
MAN is by default selfish and as such he does not reserve a second thought on the consequences of his actions in terms of the effects on his neighbours. By nature, man is wired to care only for himself and family; he cares less about his fellow beings; as long as he is satisfied, a check on others is needless. At times, man goes to the extent of making others uncomfortable to make himself comfortable.
Once he’s fine, he is uninterested in any other person who isn’t fine. Some, as if their conscience is dead, have made harmful practices their jobs and way of life. These people with dead conscience make fortunes from harming people with their actions. There as been a serious warning on Nigerians on the dangers of consuming frozen foods as some unscrupulous people preserve them with formalin, a chemical substance meant for embalming dead human bodies.
Frozen fish, chicken and turkey are the most common food items preserved with this poisonous chemical by fish and meat sellers. Formalin, when consumed is capable of causing severe damage to body organs. It revealed at another time that some ‘Kilishi’ (dry meat) sellers use Sniper, a poisonous chemical, to preserve and keep flies away from the meat. Barbaric!
It was also uncovered how some marketers use kerosene or fuel tankers to convey vegetable oils to the market. In her words: “We have noticed that some tankers that are used to carry kerosene or petroleum products, they will just wash it a little and convey vegetable oil inside. It is very dangerous because definitely, such vegetable oil will be contaminated. Innocent people will go and buy these vegetable oils and in the end, they will contract diseases.
The uncontrolled urge by many today to amass wealth stems from laziness and impatience. These people can go to any length to become wealthy overnight without paying their dues or going through the proper channel. This set of people with the get-rich-quickly mindset are the ones who go into rituals having to sacrifice human lives or even vital organs of their body just to make money.