my sweetie, my honey, my baby, my sugar ...Consider the following facts about milk, sugar and honey:
- Fact#1: It is against Kalenjin etiquette to mix milk and honey. Apparently, it brings a curse on the herd...
- Fact#2: We like our yoghurt sweetened - and the sweetening does not affect milk production or the herd.
- Fact#3: Sugar is retailing at nearly Kshs. 250 per Kg
- Fact#4: Honey is retailing at Kshs. 300 per Kg
- Fact#5: Honey is a healthier, effective substitute for sugar.
- Fact#6: 1 kg honey lasts longer than 2 kg of sugar
- Fact#7: I come from an outstanding honey producing community
- Fact#8: The capitalism that governs sugar, electricity, maize and famine causes starvation, poverty and dependency
- Fact#9: The capitalism behind honey production empowers currently marginalized people. Honey can be produced almost anywhere in the country
- Fact#10: Our elders can release honey of its current encumbrances so that it can play its popular role as the sweetener of choice
Honey + Tea + Milk = Great Chai
I think these prices have been going up persistently for too long - if something is not done and done in a hurry, we are staring at social doom; really!
