Dumped imported chicken harms West African economies

Trade Africa, Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Europeans love chicken breast. What do they do with the chicken legs? The current answer: Freeze them and ship them to Africa where they sell at a price far cheaper than fresh local chicken.

Television journalist Marcello Faraggi has put this chicken-and-Africa story in a documentary shown at the European Parliament in Brussels in February (2007). Green Member of European Parliament, Carl Schlyter, who wants to support him in drawing attention to this dubious export, invited him. Faraggi took Cameroon as a case study, but said, "The same dumping of frozen chicken happened in other countries with weak governments on the west coast of Africa."

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