Brazil: We will have to discuss the price of meat, says Lula
Meat
Brazil
Published Sep 11, 2022
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Former president and presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said on Saturday that it will be necessary to discuss the price of meat offered to Brazilians.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - At a rally in Taboão da Serra, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, the PT member questioned the fact that Brazilians find it difficult to buy meat in a country that is a power in the production of the item. “It is not possible for Brazil to be the first meat producer in the world and someone having to wait in line at the butcher's to get bones. Not. What I want is for you to be able to go into the butcher shop and buy meat,” Lula said at the rally in São Paulo. “That's why we're going to have to discuss the price of meat in this country. We are going to have to discuss whether to continue exporting only or whether to leave some for us to eat,” he added. Foreign sales of fresh beef reached a new monthly record in August, with 203,230 tonnes, according to data from Secex (Secretariat of Foreign Trade), versus 181,600 tonnes shipped abroad a year earlier. The national refrigeration industry is going through a moment of great demand in the international ...
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