Meat and chicken consumption drops due to high prices in Brazil

With high inflation, it has been increasingly difficult for Brazilian families to maintain their usual purchases of foodstuffs, a group which includes beef and chicken. In Sergipe, prices are already in the same range as fish, which used to be more expensive items in open markets, markets and supermarkets. In fact, some types of fish are more affordable than red meat. The F5News reporting team was at the Food Distribution Center (Ceasa), in the Getúlio Vargas neighborhood, in Aracaju, this Tuesday morning (21), and found that the price per kilogram of 1st beef is cheaper. $38, while there are croaker-type fish costing R$20 a kilo. According to sellers interviewed at Ceasa, all types of animal proteins had increased prices. The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), confirms the information, showing in August increases of 26.56% in the value of meat, 27.56% in chicken and 4.60 % in the cost of fish, in relation ...