Food poisons killing people in Nigeria today
What is killing people in Nigeria today? Nigerians should be focused on solving these problems instead of fighting over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) they don’t understand yet. These are what are causing most of the cancer going around now: 1.) Ripening agent for banana and plantain. Because people are in hurry to harvest their bananas and plantain. They spray it with Calcium carbide. This is a ripening agent and makes the plantain to ripen very quietly. It is extremely hazardous to the human body as it contains traces of arsenic and phosphorus. So anytime you buy ripe plantain in the market chances are you are buying plantain ripened with Calcium carbide. Solution: Buy unripe Plantains and Banana and keep it inside black plastic for few days, it will ripe naturally. 2.) Most Nigerian farmers, if not all of them use a chemical called “Sniper” as added ingredient for pest control. Sniper is potent and it scares me. It is a DDVP, 2,2-Dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate compound.