Meat consumption fell 6% in January due to the sharp rise in price. The value of the product rose 377% in one year.
It plummeted from 63.7 to 50.3 kilograms per inhabitant in a decade. In Argentina, the country recognized worldwide as the kingdom of barbecue and once the most carnivorous in the world, beef consumption plummeted. In this context of brutal loss of purchasing power of salaries, the collapse in the consumption of meat, as well as other foods and goods, is an announced consequence.