Firewood and Charcoal: The silent killer in our kitchens - Rev. Mireku

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• Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 1 year ago

  When have firewood and charcoal become silent killers? Useless fools who will take some small bribes and be lying. Kwasiaa4 buuluubuuluuu!!!

  When have firewood and charcoal become silent killers? Useless fools who will take some small bribes and be lying. Kwasiaa4 buuluubuuluuu!!!

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• Yaw Boakye 1 year ago

  It's true. Even lpg is a silent killer. Charcoal and wood burn release a lot of soot, which is the black smoke you see. The soot gets trapped in your lungs. Lpg is a little better on the soot side, but petroleum products also ...
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  It's true. Even lpg is a silent killer. Charcoal and wood burn release a lot of soot, which is the black smoke you see. The soot gets trapped in your lungs. Lpg is a little better on the soot side, but petroleum products also release other things during burn.
  Safest cooking method is with an electric stove but in GH the supply is unreliable

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• Mr Smith 1 year ago

  Anybody should keep a pot of soup on a LPG stove, turn on the gas very low without lighting fire for just five minutes and eat it. You will be dead in less than a month! It is a scientific fact that charcoal food is ten times ...
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  Anybody should keep a pot of soup on a LPG stove, turn on the gas very low without lighting fire for just five minutes and eat it. You will be dead in less than a month! It is a scientific fact that charcoal food is ten times healthier than LPG!! The church has failed a certain portion of the world whilst religion has failed the whole world.

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• Gborlahn 1 year ago

  I don't understand your point here because inhalation of the raw gas like that might be harmful but "burning it" during the process of cooking might reduce it drastically.

  I don't understand your point here because inhalation of the raw gas like that might be harmful but "burning it" during the process of cooking might reduce it drastically.

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• Ebow 1 year ago

  Well said Rev, but is LPG that afford in Ghana? If Ghanaians had their own nobody will ever go near fire wood and charcoal. Not until successive governments start walking their talk by making it affordable, Ghanaians will con ...
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  Well said Rev, but is LPG that afford in Ghana? If Ghanaians had their own nobody will ever go near fire wood and charcoal. Not until successive governments start walking their talk by making it affordable, Ghanaians will continue to patronize fire wood and charcoal.

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• Agbelimor Paris 1 year ago

  Nonsense,is that what's written in the holy bible?Just find a proper way to convince them to use the LPG not by threatening them with charcoal and firewood being a silent killers in the kitchen.

  Nonsense,is that what's written in the holy bible?Just find a proper way to convince them to use the LPG not by threatening them with charcoal and firewood being a silent killers in the kitchen.

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• psalm 1 year ago

  you have already taken the bribe to convince to use lpg how many people can afford gas .charcoal is cheap 2 cedis self you will get some to buy

  you have already taken the bribe to convince to use lpg how many people can afford gas .charcoal is cheap 2 cedis self you will get some to buy

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• Kay Boni 1 year ago

  Please get louder with this initiative, pollution is killing our country and especially our women is the kitchen!! Funny enough doctors only advise people to avoid going close to fire without telling them the smoke is the rea ...
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  Please get louder with this initiative, pollution is killing our country and especially our women is the kitchen!! Funny enough doctors only advise people to avoid going close to fire without telling them the smoke is the real problem.

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• Bawulenbeug 1 year ago

  I find it hard to come to terms with such argumentation in favour of lpg over firewood. When will the Blackman be circumspect, develop deep critical thinking, analytical reason, and philosophical underpinnings of things, even ...
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  I find it hard to come to terms with such argumentation in favour of lpg over firewood. When will the Blackman be circumspect, develop deep critical thinking, analytical reason, and philosophical underpinnings of things, events, situations, circumstances imposed on us?
  Why this question?
  First, the colonial ideologies were used supported by purported, wrong, shallow, western-driven "facts" that charcoal that our forebearers used to clean their teeth is unhealthy, bad, dangerous to our cavities bla bla bla. Fast-forward, what do we see now? Charcoal toothpaste. What didn't they tell us about using chewing sticks, plantain stalks, and other plants to clean our teeth? Today, we have herbal toothpaste. Do you see what is happening? Why would you still accept things like this without interrogating this kind of skewed, western driven, colonialism underpinned knowledge to deprive us of a century old wisdom and knowledge that our (fore)fathers and mother's used? The same statistics tell us women enjoy longevity over men. In particular, conventional knowledge points out that women live longer than men. This is even more pervasive in the rural areas. If the supposed concocted statistics about woodfire or firewood is anything to go by, who are the people that use charcoal more than the rural areas? Do men patronize the kitchen more than the women in the rural areas? If no, why do women still live averagely longer than men in the same rural setting? We just can't be accepting things like that. In any case, does the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has forest? How can a desert inhabited people support an initiative of charcoal and firewood? Let's try to interrogate things before we accept. It is dehumanizing, mental distress, utter insult on us if we only always accept things without critical questions. How will the rural person afford lpg? What is the socioeconomic dynamics in the rural area that you think they can always patronize lpg? It is a great dishonesty to the rural poor.

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• Gborlahn 1 year ago

  Is poor ventilation not the direct cause of these deaths rather than the substances you're talking about? My mom used charcoal and firewood for years without any health issues and our kitchen was outside and well ventilated.

  Is poor ventilation not the direct cause of these deaths rather than the substances you're talking about? My mom used charcoal and firewood for years without any health issues and our kitchen was outside and well ventilated.

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