ON A LIGHTER NOTE - UNETHICAL PRACTICES IN PAKISTAN
– 2nd March, 2023
Recently, I received a short video clip on WhatsApp from
someone in which it was shown that a man is making minced meat out of whole
dead chickens without separating head, feathers, claws and other body parts. The
accompanying caption with the video clip written in Urdu and translated into
English would read “This is a new way of supplying chicken minced meat for use
in samosas. Now here’s why Allah’s punishment is upon Pakistanis!”
It was apparent that the man was filming the scene of making
minced meat in grinder while doing it himself, because it was a close-up and just
one of his arms was visible in the video, not his face.
I replied to the sender of video that he is an educated
person and should be careful while forwarding such videos with captions like
those. It is agreed that all kinds of unethical practices are being carried out
in Pakistan but we should be careful in believing everything on social media.
Why would a thief film himself doing a crime? Similarly, it is highly unlikely for
someone to capture himself on camera while indulging in an unethical practice
as no one is so stupid to leave such a proof.
It seems that someone filmed grinding few dead chickens (which
were perhaps rotten and not fit for eating) just for kicks. Afterwards, he
floated that video clip on social media. Otherwise we have no actual proof that
someone is making chicken minced meat in such a way in Pakistan. It is because
it would have been highlighted by a local media TV channel then.
Few years back, a media TV channel staff raided a place in
Lahore where meat of dead dogs was being prepared to be supplied to some small restaurants.
Hence, the scale of unethical practices in business in Pakistan cannot be
denied but we still have to be careful in believing and forwarding every other
random video on social media!
- S Roman Ahsan.
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