Hilarious: Kirchnerist deputies propose a promotion regime to "transform beans into oil and proteins"

A group of Kirchnerist deputies presented a legislative project to create the "National Regime for the Promotion of the Value-Added Food Industry" to attempt to reverse the "primary pattern of international insertion," which – according to the project – "generates external vulnerability, insufficient employment, and unequal and inequitable territorial development." The objective of the regime is "to transform grain into flour, flour into pasta, beans into oil and proteins, milk into cheeses, meat into quality cuts and exportable by-products. Each additional link multiplies the value, employment, and tax revenue, productive development, and regional equity." The person in charge of drafting the project would surely be surprised to learn that Argentina is the world's leading exporter of flour and soybean oil. "International experience demonstrates this with precision. Brazil consolidated its leadership in meats and processed foods through incentives for vertical integration and ...