On Satar Dada and the chicken fiasco, I rue a chance missed at tackling the real story, which in my view would be on the effects of an investor having interests in different industries that could in the end prevent oversight of what they do. This is potentially a story that raises a case of conflicting interests in business similar to what the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 sought to control in the US. Still, it is an opportunity to fight for regulation of food safety, which evidently from the case of brine is lax.
The brine story was still a case of a plot being lost, of us chasing after shadows since we could not prove that the brine in question was excessive or in contravention of any safety standards. In fact, the radio interviews I listened to proved a massive coup for Satar Dada who had a field day since he was confronted by journalists with no evidence of any wrong doing whatsoever. That as it may be, the media must not shy away from chasing similar stories in fear of a backlash and this is why:
