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Rammal Johnny wrote in the Nidaa Al Watan newspaper:
An expected meat crisis, as subsidized meat “flew away,” butlers in the Nabatiyeh region say. This was accompanied by an increase in the price of meat, as the kilo registered 45,000 pounds and is likely to reach 80 thousand if the formula of the 10 dollar kilo that prevailed before. the crisis. Consequently, meat becomes for the rich, and the proverb “Oh meat, who buys you” applies.
A few days ago, citizens were surprised by the rise in the price of a kilo of meat that is supposed to be subsidized, which generated confusion and fear of an increase due to the lifting of subsidies. The concern reflected a decrease in the percentage of meat sold in the local market as a result of the fall in the purchasing power of citizens, and this is what most butchers confirm when announcing that we are facing a serious meat crisis, about all because 60 percent of the subsidized meat was smuggled for the benefit of the large traders who control the market, in preparation for putting it on the market. Soon on the black market price.
The butcher “Abu Kamal” does not hide his concern. According to him, the slaughterhouses stopped selling at the subsidized price and informed them of the matter, not to mention that they raised prices. Unsurprisingly, “the subsidized cows were deported to Syria and some of them were stored on the farms of major traders.”
Big questions are being drawn about the increase in the price of meat at this time, and what is its purpose. It is true, according to the information, that there is no subsidized meat on the market, and the mafias are tightening their grip on the market by preparing to sell it at a high price. According to the information, the kilo will witness a gradual increase, which will reach 60 thousand in the next few days, before setting its price at 80 thousand, that is, 10 dollars as before, and that is what welders fear, that they may be forced to close their butchers, as a result of their inability to purchase, then how in any case. Citizen? According to “Abu Kamal”, the subsidized cows are currently missing from the market, and the cows are waiting for the subsidized money to be taken out. This will generate a serious crisis and will push the meat mafia to control the market, through the subsidized cows they smuggled and put them on the market according to the price they set.
In his opinion, “the absence of supervision and the failure of the Ministries of Agriculture and Economy in their role led to this crisis in which we are immersed.”
“Failure of the subsidized cow”, so declare the owners of the slaughterhouses to the butchers who are forced to reserve their turn to obtain the meat at the slaughterhouse price, as a consequence of the monopolistic policy that began today, according to the butcher Muhammad , who holds the Minister of Agriculture and Economy responsible for what happened, considering We are “facing a real disaster, everyone is stronger than the state, and those who have the meat mafia are those who control the price”, which indicates that the subsidy process is currently on hold after traders smuggled meat into Syria and deprived it from the Lebanese market, noting that “with the beginning of the effectiveness of the cardboard made by the Ministry of Agriculture, the slaughterhouses sold only 40 and 60 percent went to the farms, and today, after the “subsidized cow” flew, the traders started selling the smuggler at the exchange rate. And he added: “The meat mafia is distributed among merchants, slaughterhouses and farms, and they all have political support, except for meat, which is not subsidized, and I only see the head of the torturers.”
In the end, the subsidized meat has been frozen and prices are rising, in a clear and proven theft. However, censorship is the most prominent absent, as one of the butchers says with the assertion that “we are facing a meat crisis, and that the removal of support for it happened without” havoc “as a result of the silence of the people. , and today we are facing a more dangerous turn.
Subsidized meat is sold on the black market “in your eyes, ministry.” Do you act and control the price manipulation before it’s too late, or do you “not charge anyone” as usual?
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