Egg Prices Trigger Boycott Call
SAUDI ARABIA - Posters on an online forum behind a series of campaigns to boycott local products are now targeting eggs, whose prices have risen in recent months from around SR7 to as high as SR18.
15 April 2008
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Anonymous posters on the forum, entitled Moqataa (Arabic for boycott), launched their campaign around two weeks ago. They are currently raising awareness about the boycott using e-mails and SMS messages.
Campaigners say those behind the price-hike think that the public is naïve. “They once told us that the increase in price was because of bird flu, which affected a lot of poultry farms by causing production to decrease and prices to increase,” said a poster on the forum. “Some say feed prices have increased... Everyone is accusing the other.”
Source: ArabNews
