QUESTION OF THE MONTH: IS IT KAIKAI OR PEKPEK INSIDE THE TUNA TIN?



by SUSAN LOKUN


It is amazing how our country could sell a resource that people around the world want and sometimes pay very good money for, then buy back the absolute garbage leftovers that the rest of the world doesn't want.


We have some of the last remaining large resources of yellowfin tuna in the whole world.   It is one of our most precious resource.  


RD Tuna was the first cannery built in PNG to supposedly develop PNG's tuna resource.   RD Tuna has always been a scam enterprise.     RD Tuna owner Rodrigo E. Rivera and his family who owns a heap of tuna canneries in General Santos and Cebu in the Philippines.   The RD group of companies began in 1976 as a pawnshop in General Santos City.


Rivera owns a large fleet of tuna fishing boats named after his wife Dolly.   Those fishing boats go out all over the South Pacific, including PNG waters.   Very few of them dump their catch at the RD tuna cannery in Madang.  Most head straight for Philippines.   There they tin Dolores and Dolly brand tuna while in PNG we have the Diana brand.  It's all from the same people.


The cannery in Madang is a front to pretend to do downstream processing.  Actually, most of the tuna that this company catches in PNG waters doesn't go to Madang at all.   Sometimes you will find Diana tuna tins that actually say Made in Philippines, not Made in PNG.  Or they will say:  Manufactured for RD Tuna, which is a sneaky way of saying that this stuff is not actually being canned in Madang but canned overseas FOR RD Tuna of Madang.  


Our tuna is creating far more jobs for Philippinos than for Papua New Guineans YET IT IS OUR FISH AND OUR RESOURCE!     


Now for the revealing of yet another one of RD tuna's many scams to trick the people of PNG.     See if you can find a tin of Dolly TUNA IN LEMON WITH SOY SAUCE.    


Open the tin and look at all the liquid but where's the tuna?


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Pour out all the liquid and see what you're left with.   Hardly any tuna inside is there?    What you are mostly paying for is the tin and cheap water and air.   It's gotta be some of the most expensive tuna in the world that we end up buying and it's not even fresh like what all our coastal peoples used to catch for free from PNG waters.  


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Now take out what you think is tuna.  Ha!   Something very strange here.  There's not just tuna inside but something else too!


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The stuff on the left looks like tuna, yes that's true.    All will agree to that.   But what about the stuff on the right?    Is it pieces of throwaway meat or what?    Animal or nonanimal?   Meat or pekpek?   There's actually a heap of this mystery substance in the tin.   Look close:


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There seems to be more mystery substance in this tin than there is actual tuna.   But what is it?   Let's look at the label that gives all the ingredients and which LEGALLY SHOULD SAY EXACTLY WHAT IS IN THAT TIN:


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Whatever is listed first should be the most common ingredient.   We can see for ourselves looking into the tin that the mystery substance is more common than the tuna itself.  But what is the mystery substance?   Seems that it's not even listed in the ingredients!    It's obvious that the mystery substance isn't an oil, it couldn't be sugar, salt, seasoning, garlic powder, citric acid, onion powder or pepper powder.  SO WHAT IS IT?


This mystery substance is being sold to us by the Philippino Rivera family, owner of RD tuna.  But the crap isn't coming from RD tuna cannery in Madang, but from the Philippines.   Yes, Dolores is yet another company named after the wife by RD tuna cannery owner Riviera.    Dolly is the same woman as Dolores.   


Revera puts in some kind of rubbish style tuna from his canneries and sells it to us!    He knows that we don't read labels.  We'll pay good money for water and air in a tin as long as taste is nice.   


WE ARE LEFT WITH THE QUESTION:   WHAT IS THE MYSTERY SUBSTANCE INSIDE THESE TINS?   How many other flavours of Dolores, Dolly and Diana tuna also have this mystery substance and why is RD tuna not even putting its name on the label.


Safe or not?   

Thanks to us buying all the rubbish stuff thrown into the Diana, Dolly, and Dolores  tuna tins from Mr Rivera, he has become very rich.  He and his family now own all these companies in the Philippines:    ANCHOR DRIVING RANGE, ANCHOR HOTEL, GEN-SAN SHIPYARD AND MACHINE WORKS INC, HOTEL DOLORES, PENINSULAR RURAL BANK, PHIL BEST CANNING CORPORATION, RD FISH HATCHERIES, INC., RRN20020629040342467,   RD & CO. JEWELLERS & GEMOLOGISTS INC, RD & DL ENT. CO , RD COMM CONSULTANCIES INC. , RD ALMADA TRADING CO., RD AUTO CARE CENTER CO. , RD COLD STORAGE, RD CONS. CO. , RD CORP , RD CREDIT CORP. , RD DYNAMIC MARINE SVCS. CO , RD ELECTRONICS CORP. , RD EXPORT AND PROCESSING PLANT, RD FARMS, RD FISHING INDUSTRY INC., RDF PNG, RD FLOATING DRYDOCK, RD FOOD PROCESSING & EXPORT CORP, RD HARDWARE & FISHING SUPPLY INC. , RD HATCHERIES , RD HIGH EXPONENTS PARTY SALES INC. , RD ICE PLANT, RD INTL EXIMP INC. RD JUPITER ASSN, INC. , RD KASIN BUILDERS INC., RD MACHINERY & INDL. SUPPLY INC. , RD MOTOR SVC. CO , RD PAWNSHOP INC, RD PILIPINAS CONSTRUCTION. CORP. , RD PLAZA, RD POWER & MARINE INC. , RD PRAWN FARM, RD REALTY DEVELOPMENT. CORP. , RD SAAVEDRA TRADING CO. , RD SALES RESOURCE CO., RD SHIPPERS INTL. CO. , RD SILVA TRUCKING SVC. CORP. , RD SILVA TRUCKING SVCS. CORP. , RD SOLUTIONS CORP. , RD SONS SHIPPING AGENCY INC. , RDTC, RD TITAN DEVELOPERS INC. , RD TUNA VENTURES, INC. , RD WELD MANUFACTURING COMPANY's, RT RD CONS. CO , SOUTH SEA FISHING VENTURES PHIL., INC, SOUTH SEA LODGE, TROPICANA RESORT HOTEL.  Other RD Subsidiaries/Affiliates include Genpack, Celebes Canning Corporation, Penbank.

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