Consumer organizations call for measures amid rising egg prices

Following the rise in egg prices, the staple food that has increased the most so far this year, consumer organizations have called for measures to mitigate the impact of this increase, including providing aid to the most vulnerable families or lowering the VAT on this food and chicken meat. In a context where avian flu has forced the reinforcement of measures to prevent its spread in poultry farms, with the confinement of poultry in nearly 1,200 Spanish municipalities, the spokesperson for the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU), Enrique García, has insisted on the need to investigate these increases. This is a food with a "strong component" for the diet of families in the most vulnerable situation, for which he has requested direct aid. García recalled that his organization had already denounced a one-euro increase in six months in the consumer price, after two price peaks at the origin in February and October "whose decrease has not occurred at the same speed." Asked about ...