Uruguayan president weighs in on livestock row
16/01/2014
In comments on national radio in mid-January, Mr Mujica warned meat companies not to try to “cash in” on low slaughter levels to boost margins. He said he understood that many meat companies had seen their margins “compromised” in recent months and could see why they were keen on a recovery, but he said this must not extend to meat companies using their influence to keep livestock herds low.
“To act in this way would bring them benefits in the short term,” the president said, “but it would be bad for the whole value chain in the long term. It would endanger the goose that lays the golden eggs.”
He said he had no intention of laying down any hard and fast instructions on the matter for now, but merely inviting all parties concerned to maintain a positive dialogue “so that the government will have no cause to intervene in the matter”.
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