Pakistan, July 28 -- Islamabad's Food Authority claims it runs a zero-tolerance regime. Yet in Tarnol, a farmhouse was reportedly slaughtering and packing a tonne of donkey meat, with more than 50 live animals on site and a foreign national in charge. The FIR lists 25 maunds, roughly 1,000 kilos. And while he meat is being destroyed, the suspect is in custody and local facilitators are being traced, the very fact that such an operation could exist in the federal capital says everything about the holes in Pakistan's food safety net.
Officials insist there is no evidence the meat entered restaurants. That misses the point. A supply chain capable of stockpiling a tonne of product, equipped with packaging and an alleged export plan, is not b...
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