Deceptive label

Savenaca Vakaliwaliwa, Suva

The cheapest canned skipjack tuna flakes that have flooded the Fiji supermarkets have a deceptive or false picture as its label.

The label shows a white bowl filled with lettuce with a big heap of succulent looking tuna flakes in the middle.

But when you open this can of skipjack tuna, it is full of oil and with some mushy mashed tuna floating in it.

Pour away the oil and put the mashed tuna in a bowl of lettuce and I tell you, it is far from what is depicted in its label. A woman told my other half that she buys this cheap tuna to feed her cats as she considers it not good for human consumption.

Sadly, in our current economic climate, many Fijians living below the poverty line will buy this cheap tuna with a deceptive label because it is cheap.

What makes my blood boil is that this cheap tuna is imported from Thailand. My question is: “Why is this kind of rubbish being imported into Fiji when we as a nation are trying to keep our ever increasing NCD statistics at bay? Some years ago mutton flaps were banned because of its high fat content but today, we can buy these imported mutton flaps that are just full of fat from butchers and supermarkets.

Come on Government and importers, your hearts are in your pockets and not in the good health and welfare of Fijians when you allow unhealthy foods and products into our beloved nation.