Argentine president: Skip eating beef

[Judi Lynn]

Argentine president: Skip eating beef
Apr 4, 2006, 17:44 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (UPI) -- The president of Argentina -- a nation with the world`s largest per capita meat consumption -- wants citizens to eat less beef to halt spiraling prices.

President Nestor Kirchner hopes his recent skip-the-beef call will have the same effect as last year`s boycott of Shell oil products to check sharply increasing prices.

Nestor also has virtually halted export of beef from Argentina.
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The average person in Argentina eats 144 pounds of beef annually, twice the U.S. rate, the report said.
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1152418.php/Argentine_president_Skip_eating_beef

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Spurs Action Against Slave Labour
Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, Apr 3 (IPS) - Denunciations of sweatshops operating in the Argentine capital have piled up over the past few years in the city government and the courts. But not until six undocumented immigrants - including four children - died in a fire did the authorities announce measures to crack down on the network of clandestine textile factories that use slave labour.

Six Bolivian immigrants - two women, two three-year-olds, a 10-year-old and a 15-year-old - were killed in a blaze that broke out Thursday night in one of the sweatshops operating in a residential neighbourhood in the capital.

Reports on the existence of a broad network of clandestine textile and footwear factories whose workers are kept in conditions of virtual slavery have periodically emerged in Argentina.

In 2005, several Bolivians who were able to escape from the factory where they were locked in and forced to work 18 hours a day reported the situation to the city of Buenos Aires ombudsperson's office, which brought a lawsuit against the factory owner.
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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32757

[mdmc]

1. they sure eat a lot of beef

[democracyindanger]

2. The Argentine beef industry is huge

It's like asking Americans to give up sitting on our asses.

[pitohui]

7. what do you sit in your country?

i would genuinely like to know

[democracyindanger]

8. Like most Americans,

I sit on my ass.

[enid602]

3. Argentina

Steak dinner with all the fixin's generally costs about $5 per person, unless you're in a really fancy place. When you go to the mall, the steak places in the food court create a garlic and beef cloud that you can smell the moment you enter the mall. I rarely eat beef, but do like seafood. In Argentina, you get fresh seafood from both Argentina (Atlantic) and Chile (Pacific); it is also very reasonable and well-prepared. Also, Buenos Aires is 65% Italian, so I don't need to mention more about their cuisine.

[NYC]

4. That's approximately 6 ounces a day.

I think it comes to 6.3 oz.

[NashVegas]

5. I Wonder What Their Cancer Rates Are

Compared to the US.

[pitohui]

6. google is your friend

"rates comparable to north america" by which they mean usa and canada

http://journal.paho.org/index.php?a_ID=115


higher cancer rates are linked to smoking and drinking and having $$$ for same

eating more beef does not cause cancer, that's a myth to begin with, but why not explore for yourself, as you are not going to believe anyway if someone else does your homework

beef is safe, healthy food

argentina does not have more cancer than usa

[oscar111]

9. Sweatshops.. onlya lawsuit?

slaves locked in... and no arrest? pretty weak attitude