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Crazy, about 20 years ago I read an article saying turkey tails were probably a huge cause of obesity in pacific islands. Then just now I wondered if I had conf
by themodelplumber 11y ago
Crazy, about 20 years ago I read an article saying turkey tails were probably a huge cause of obesity in pacific islands. Then just now I wondered if I had confused them with mutton flaps...but no. Separate things! And it appears Samoa banned turkey tails in 2007 [0] until their desire to join the WTO _forced_ them to drop the ban completely as of 2016! Insanity.
Seriously, these people are being abused, are they not?
0: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/05/14/182568333/samoans-await-the-return-of-the-tasty-turkey-tail http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/05/14/182568333/sam...
- zyxley 11y ago> "I know it may seem ironic but fish and native staple foods do cost more than turkey tails," she says. > James Sumner, president of the U.S. Poultry and Egg Exporting Council, says his organization didn't realize they were exporting turkey tails to Samoa until he learned about the ban. > And since the late 1990s, the poor island nation of just under 200,000 people had been trying to join the WTO, hoping to improve its economy with a gross domestic product of less than $2 billion. It seems like something that's less "abuse" (at least in the sense that anyone's consciously doing it), and more a result of dirt-cheap imported food in a nation where most people don't have much money.