Benin - Circumcision - Dogs CLUBBED to DEATH - Dog meat trade. youtu.be/iINeH7BpI5c WARNING - GRAPHIC Benin - Dog meat trade. When you eat the dog you gain good health Sacrificial dog meat - dogs clubbed to death in the name of male youth circumcision. Robert Fungo is a very ambitious Ugandan. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Food Science and Technology at Makerere University, while at the same time working at Biovarsity International, an agricultural research centre in Cotonou, Republic of Benin. Biovarsity deals in the promotion and conservation of indigenous African foods. Fungo has worked here for the last three years but keeps coming to Kampala to work on his doctorate programme at Makerere, where he did his first degree and later masters in Food Science and Technology. Fungo has travelled extensively in West Africa working for Biovarsity and in so doing, experienced different and contrasting cultures and foods, to those in Uganda. For instance, when he had just arrived in Cotonou and was still learning French, he once bought three kilos of what he thought was goat’s meat at a local butchery, to take him through the weekend. He prepared a good dish at home and enjoyed the meat for two days until a visitor and neighbour he had invited for lunch told him that what he was eating was actually dog meat and not goat. And the meat suddenly “turned bad”. The neighbour told Fungo that the butcher from whom he had bought the delicacy actually deals in dog meat. Fungo gave the rest of the uncooked meat to the visitor who left for home a happy man. According to Fungo, the meat tasted more or less like goat meat. According to Fungo, dog meat is a favourite dish in Benin and some other West African countries, where it is common seeing someone taking a number of chained dogs to the market place for slaughter, especially those that no longer bark at night and the old, unhealthy-looking ones. “Foreigners working in West Africa”, says Fungo, “experience lots of hardships.” “Workmates will not help you settle down and instead will try everything possible to fail you and see you off. They see foreigners as intruders who have come all the way to take their jobs and money,” he narrates. Fungo tells of Kenyan friends who could not stand the pressure and ended up returning home. But Fungo fought on and overcame the hostile environment, including the unfriendly hot and humid weather.
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