There was a glaring absence of red meat at the Manama and Muharraq central markets yesterday (October 1), after butchers refused to pay higher prices for non-subsidised beef and mutton. Government meat subsidies were lifted yesterday and butchers baulked at the increased cost of purchasing produce from the Bahrain Livestock Company – the country’s main supplier of meat products, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

 

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