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The president's comments provoked an immediate volley of angry retorts from the farmers' representatives, who said her comments were offensive and did not take account of the government's own policies as the cause of the hikes.
"Most of the Argentine population is paying for the Kirchners' mistakes." said Eduardo Buzzi, head of the Argentine Agricultural Federation and one of the most outspoken critics of the government.
"Many producers have lost their livestock and have had to give away their cows due to drought and because someone from the government decided what the highest prices would be and forced them to sell their cattle," Buzzi said in a farmers' meeting with Fernandez.
Argentina's Fernandez, farmers locked in row over beef prices - UPI.com
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With all this talk in the last few years about unregulated,unfettered capitalism I guess this shows that the over regulation that some seem to want is not the way to go either.
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