Butcher in Kitui Mixes Spoilt Meat With Fresh Stock, Business Crumbles After Selling to a Certain Customer
had built my small but thriving butcher shop in Kitui over several years. Customers trusted me to provide the freshest meat in town, and I took pride in my work or at least I used to. One day, faced with a shortage of fresh stock and desperate to meet demand.
I made a decision that seemed harmless at the time: I mixed some spoilt meat with the fresh cuts and sold it as usual. I told myself no one would notice, that business must continue, and that profit was more important than ethics.
Everything seemed normal at first. Customers came, purchased their meat, and left. I counted my money and smiled, believing I had outsmarted the system. But the very next week, strange things began to happen.
My regular clients started complaining about the meat, claiming it tasted off, smelled funny, or made their families sick. A particularly important customer, whose word carried influence in Kitui, bought a large batch of the mixed meat. Within hours, the news of spoiled meat spread.
