Maasai herders tend to a cow at a game ranch in Athi River on 10th July 2009. Pastoralists have been lining up at the Kenya Meat Commission to sell their emaciated beasts. Photo/PETERSON GITHAIGA (NAIROBI)

Government officials at Gurufa borehole, Garissa District in Northern Kenya. Cattle are the economic livelihood of pastoralists who have been lining up at the Kenya Meat Commission to sell their emaciated beasts. Photo/William Oeri

Bile Bundd, a farmer from Tana delta examines one of his cows that he took for selling at the Kenya meat commission in Mombasa. Photo/Stephen Odiyo.

Some of the cows waiting to be slaughtered at the Kenya Meat Commission in Athi River. A big number of livestock has died in the factory following the on-going drought in various parts of the country. Photo/PETERSON GITHAIGHA (NAIROBI)