Not buying meat
Meat sales are almost down after the government announced that the buffalo meat imported from India is not produced based on rules of sanitation.
Let us recall that on August 2-9 the Armenian delegation visited a number of meat-producing companies in India where there was lack of rules of hygiene and meat was procured from territories that were not under supervision. The meat products were transferred by cars that lacked sanitary-hygienic standards. Seventy-nine percent of Armenian meat companies import buffalo meat from India.
As the surveys by "A1+" showed, citizens of Yerevan are really careful when buying meat.
"It is better to buy a kilogram or half a kilogram less meat. I used to eat some meat or a sausage, but I am totally against it now," said citizen Karine Mardanyan.
Construction worker Armen says that he always used to eat meat before finding out about the susceptible buffalo meat. Now he only eats cheese, although he has no doubt that its production doesn't correspond to norms. We also asked meat producers.
The "Atenk" meat factory told "A1+" that they don't use buffalo meat and low meat sales are due to the summer as well.
"Bari Samaratsi" uses meat from India and Brazil. They also use local meat, but the company correspondent mentioned that that is not enough for production.
Doesn't that mean that meat sales will soon go up? In response, the correspondent said: "It is very likely because it was not clear for us as to why they made such an announcement."
The "Biella" meat producing company informed that in a couple of days they will know how much meat sales have gone down. The correspondent at "Biella" didn't share the opinion that meat prices will go up soon.
