Change eating habits

Aug 27, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Pres. Ali means well. I wonder, though, whether he is serious. Or, if he takes himself seriously. I put it gently. He should listen to himself. The parts of his speeches that are not AI influenced. (Follow-up planned). Change eating habits. Well-intended. But, Swiss cheese.

First, there must be a range of food options before people can change their eating habits. They have choices. Food options found affordable, in the basket. Bitter reality for a third to a half of Guyana (maybe) is that they don’t have enough to eat. If there isn’t enough, what is there to change? When Guyanese are down to the bone, what opening for changing their eating habits? When there’s a scramble to put together a simple meal, changing eating habits, for better or worse, is a luxury that eludes. The focus is on quantity, not quality. Quality is also costly. It’s about bulkage and less about roughage. Nutrition would be nice to have, but the emphasis is on avoiding starvation. Does a man lost in the jungle, or adrift on the ocean, get picky and choosy? Whither that luxury? Especially when the only food around is the dead body of a past companion. The president and his people disagree with me on plenty; I don’t think they can disagree on this point.