Colombia: Government must control idle intermediaries in the beef chain

FEDEGÁN asked the government to control the intermediation that the union calls "idle" because it breaks the production chain of meat and, in addition to that, speculates on the prices of this basic food in the intake of Colombians. “Colombia cannot be left in the hands of a meat refrigerator. That point has been reached because Invima ended the figure of the municipal slaughterhouse. We have to turn back," said the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro Urrego. In this regard, José Félix Lafaurie Rivera, executive president of the Colombian Federation of Cattlemen (FEDEGÁN), explained that “this monopoly does not exist. I would have liked that the slaughter plants that exist in Colombia, especially the first class plants, instead of making maquila for third parties, would sell meat”. He emphasized that if so, the meat would be cheaper and have a lower price. In addition, there would be no speculation with the prices of this highly nutritious good for final consumers. “In the ...