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    "id": 945782,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "After talking about the products, we must also ensure the quality of the products. It is important for us, as a nation, to be part of making sure that livestock products are of good quality. Animals should not be given toxic medicines which have not been certified to be healthy for human beings. Up to today, our farmers do not know why they should not give medicines to their animals while milking them and giving the milk to human beings. It is our sole duty to make sure that we teach our farmers, create awareness and make them know that even if the livestock is there and they take care of it, at the end of the day, they go to the butchery to buy meat whose quality is not ascertained. So, these products, as you saw last time in supermarkets and various meat outlets, have such a big problem in the way they get to the people. Even in this Parliament, we use a lot of livestock products. If we are not careful as legislators, we can also be victims of these products if we do not take care of them. It is important for us in this House, as legislators, to pass legislation that is going to help our farmers and at the same time help the consumers of the livestock products. This Bill has come at the right time when our farmers are lamenting and wondering what to do next especially when everyone is running to livestock farming. I am one of the persons who are interested in livestock farming. That is why I visited the farmer in Rongai, but I realised there is a lot of fear outside. Our people are wondering what the Government has for them, so that they can run their day-to-day lives. For some farmers, livestock is the sole breadwinning business that they have. So, the Bill is timely and the right thing. We just need to look at the Bill keenly, so that we can amend it to suit our people’ s needs, so that they can enjoy what they are doing and get proceeds from their businesses."
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