Yanqui Mike

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Boycott Beef in Argentina?

(CNN) -- A consumer group called for Argentineans, world leaders in beef consumption, to boycott the meat for a week in an effort to lower prices, news reports said.

The price of beef has increased 40 percent to 50 percent since December, said the Association of Free Consumers, which called for the boycott to begin Monday (22 Feb 2010)
Hey!  I'm a beef producer, as you probably know...

...and I don't blame them at all.
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Yanqui Mike

Yanqui Mike
US émigré and cattle rancher in the pampas of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires since 2003. Founding Chairman of Democrats Abroad Argentina and Drinking Liberally Buenos Aires. Selected by the DNC to blog from the floor of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Blog coverage subsequently chosen for permanent inclusion by the Library of Congress. He lives with his lovely wife Alicia and their pet monkey-rat at the ranch and in Buenos Aires City.
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