LETTER: Chicken importers spin a fanciful tale
It is they who are waging war against local producers, not the other way round
As usual, David Wolpert bases his argument on a false premise (“How to end the ‘chicken war’ ”, August 2). This time it is that the local chicken industry is waging war on chicken importers. This is the same tale Brazilian producers spun in sponsoring the recent SA media visit to Brazil. In truth, local producers are defending desperately against an ever-increasing surge of predatory imports.
The aggressors, for nearly a decade, have been EU and Brazilian chicken producers, aided by Wolpert’s importer friends who are making fat millions in the process. They are the ones waging war on SA jobs, poor rural workers and SA producers...
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