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BEATING AROUND THE CASSAVA PATCH: Health Minister can't pull himself up and endorse Narsey's analysis about local healthy food; Usamate: 'eat land based food and drinks and not machine based food'

6/4/2015

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HEALTH and Medical Services Minister Jone Usamate says more and more Fijians are transiting from organic farms to supermarkets. Mr Usamate said Fijians were increasingly consuming more machine-based food than land-based food and drinks, moving from organic to chemical-based processed foods.

"Recent studies (STEPS 2011) have shown that Fijians are not consuming enough fruits and vegetables daily despite the abundant supply of these health giving foods in the land," he said.

"World Health Day 2015 has reminded us of the importance of foods that come from farms and advocates that these foods are for Fiji's foods security through improved food choices."

Mr Usamate's comments come as the country prepares to celebrate World Health Day tomorrow.

The World Health Day 2015 will be launched at the Suva SDA Primary School tomorrow with the focus on consumption of local food.

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orzy
6/4/2015 06:34:53 pm

The picture says it all...junk food!Anyhow, one important drawing happened to miss out which I believe if added is a reward to the regime for the handouts (freebies) at the expense of the taxpayers. It is the 2006 infamous cassava patch dash That pic will at least offer some credibility to the whole scene as cassava is organic.

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Chiku
6/4/2015 07:01:44 pm

Accordingly to the Latin American economist Celso Furtado the local elites in the peripheral countries assume the lifestyle and consumption patterns of their metropolitan counterparts. Hence in Fiji it is not the masses but the local elites who have adopted the supermarket diet. The poor, ordinary citizens go to the local markets for their needs outside of their own subsistence production.

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Keep The Faith link
7/4/2015 04:01:53 am

The poor, ordinary citizens often live in public housing where space for a small garden is unheard of.

It is cheaper to fill one's stomach up with 3 packets of "Made in Fiji" Maggi (CJ Patel) noodles and an onion from the corner store over a heap of cassava in the market.

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maro pito
6/4/2015 08:03:54 pm

Usamate will supply dalo and casava to class 2 and class 3 from beginning of second term hoilday.

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Tomasi
7/4/2015 02:11:04 am

A fundamental and most worrying problem with this BaiKhai regime is the notion that it is Government's responsibility to provide the material needs of the general population. They need to be reeducated to remember that they should be more focused on trying to create the environment ( social, economic, legal, etc ) for us the people to be free to live our own lives each pursuing our own goals in harmony with God's purpose and with one another. They should stop acting like the little gods they think they are and remember that they are there to serve the people and not vice versa. They should act responsibly and sincerely in the belief that it is our values that protect our society and not the so called security apparatus people have invented that has become our worst enemy and the most significant threat to our very survival. Voreqe must spend time and resources educate himself because his selfishness, ignorance, foolishness and incompetence is a national disgrace and a real source of international embarrasment for the people of Fiji.

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Welcome Home
7/4/2015 03:38:49 am

So very true, Tomasi and this is basic economics theory and good common sense. "Do as you would be done by"? If the stall-holder by the road has the best cauliflowers less transportation costs and VAT why go elsewhere? And you help the seasonal cycle of vegetable production and help feed farmers families for the cost of a local, unrefrigerated cauliflower. Green and healthy, smart solution?

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