ARGENTINES TURN TO CHICKEN AND PORK AS BEEF PRICES SOAR
April 1st, 2016
BOOMING inflation is driving consumers in Argentina to switch to chicken and pork and away from pricier beef, a mainstay for decades.
Argentines ate an annualised 56 kilogrammes (kg) of beef in the first quarter [OF 2016?], down 5.9% from a year earlier – the sharpest decline in six years, according to data from the Argentina’s meat industry and trade chamber CICCRA (La Cámara de la Industria y el Comercio de Carnes y Derivados de la República Argentina). That is significantly less than the 69kg per capita eaten in 2006 and the 78kg average over the past ...
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