Chicken rules the roost as pinched Argentines eat less pricey beef

[MilHojas]

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chicken-rules-roost-pinched-argentines-eat-less-pricey-beef-2025-01-27/

The South American country's 45 million people ate more poultry per capita than beef last year for the first time on record, official data shows, as consumption of pricier red meat slid amid triple-digit inflation and austerity under libertarian President Javier Milei.

 

[devilclam]

I've also made the switch. Chicken and pork are so much cheaper and higher in protein that I ask myself, what's the point in buying beef anymore?

 

[LuckyLuke]

My suegro in San Luis has many tales of growing up in poverty eating a roasted chicken once per month with a daily diet consisting of mostly bread, mate cocido, orchard scraps, and an occasional chunk of salami. Forget beef.

Even when I was living in Los Angeles in a studio apartment making median wages ($45,000/yr) I ate beef once a week. I'm okay with an asado being a special moment to enjoy a pricey food. Plenty of alternate proteins out there.

 

[mikic007]

Comparing to other prices I find beef still quite cheap here.

 

[Redpossum]

I don't find pork or chicken to be appreciably cheaper. No food is cheap anymore.

 

[Rich One]

Comparing to other prices I find beef still quite cheap here.

Very true a kilo of cheese is more expensive than a kilo de Lomo? Beef has an intensive care and investment for years, before reaching the market.