What do the Chinese do with the enormous amount of bovine bones they import from Argentina?

With the restriction on exporting frozen meat to China implemented by the government of Alberto Fernández, many Argentine slaughterhouses began to send bovine bones with the purpose of keeping commercial channels “oiled.” To their surprise, they found that Chinese demand was eager for this product that in Argentina is used to produce meat and bone flour, which is used both in feeding chickens and pigs and in the production of balanced food for pets. The most obvious answer is that these bones are used for animal feed. But it is not correct: the Chinese use that refrigerator waste to make broths and flavor stews. It is a product that is 100% intended for human consumption in the Asian nation. To learn more about this, a group of businessmen and technicians from Argentine meat processing plants took advantage of the trip they made last month to SIAL Shanghai to visit a bone processing plant on the outskirts of that Chinese city. There, members of the companies Forres-Beltrán, ...