One of President Gustavo Petro’s campaign promises was to reopen livestock slaughtering and meat-selling centers, known as abattoirs. On Wednesday, August 16, the Ministry of Health confirm that the decree allowing the operation of these sites again has already been prepared. There were immediate reactions from various sectors, including the Colombian Federation of Livestock Farmers (Fedegán).
EL HERALDO consulted the president of the livestock association, José Felix Lafaurie, who pointed out that the reopening of municipal slaughterhouses “is absolutely valid, so that municipalities of the fifth category can have a small slaughterhouse for consumption by the inhabitants. That is, they do not being able to trade between municipalities, that is to guarantee those inhabitants that there is meat that is slaughtered in adequate conditions, but for that you also have to invest a little in municipal slaughterhouses”.
And that is why he gave the case of the department of Atlántico as an example, where in some municipalities “there are those old slaughterhouses that were nothing more than a corral with a kind of area where, instead of slaughtering, they finally cut the beef anyway , I think we already have to give way, because people naturally deserve better quality meat, that is, with a better way to meet the requirements of a sacrifice that not only meets the welfare standards for the animal, but also for consumption .”
One of President Petro’s announcements had to do with the price of meat. For the president, this will drop when the municipal slaughterhouses reopen. In this sense, Lafaurie asserted that “it is possible as far as it will be possible to have a supply of meat in the different places without many mafia, which, for example, control the price of meat in Bogotá, theirs trying to control or price formation in certain markets on to lay”.
Source: El heraldo
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