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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ahenda",
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        "legal_name": "Paddy Ahenda",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this chance. I will also start by thanking Prof. Ojiambo for this timely Bill. I will start by giving an old adage which says: \"One man's food is another man's poison.\" Sometimes, we do not just eat to fill the bag. This type of Bill should be modelled in the line of USA food and drug administration. My friend knows what I mean. We should have knowledge of the calorific value of any food that we eat. We have just been eating a lot of junk food. It is not the quantity of the food that this Bill wants to get but the value of what you are going to eat. Occasionally, I have seen our Government running up and down with bags of maize wherever there is hunger and famine in Turkana. That is not the type of food that, that person needs at that time. You should think about the protein value you are taking to somebody dying of hunger. This is what this Bill is looking for. What is on the shelf? What is the calorific value in that food in the tins? If we have to eat, we do not just eat anything to feel your tummy but the value you are getting from the food your are eating. That is what this Bill is all about. There is a misconception that we just eat what is given to us on the table. Such behaviour should go with this Bill. Huge chunks of ingokho na busuma should go away with this Bill. We are looking at the value of food. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some years back, I met an American who had come to do some research on the type of food that we are eating, particularly in Maasailand and in Luo Nyanza. According to that American, there should be no living Luo around Lake Victoria because of it being a malaria prone area and how malaria is so deadly. But it came out, from his research, that the type of food they are eating had some value and resistance to malaria and that is why they are still living. That is the type of research that we should put in place so that we find out why Luos are still living in that malaria prone area. What do they eat? What is the value of that food? The famous omena should be number one to us. Actually, I am glad that these days you find it in the supermarkets. This is what we should be eating, so that we develop resistance. The Maasai would all have died from cardiovascular diseases for eating meat. But the type of food nutrient the Maasai get from that meat does not cause cardiovascular diseases. This is the type of calorific value we have in our foods. I think I will have to end my contribution to give a chance to the Mover to reply. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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