Argentina Crisis: Donkey meat consumption soars under Milei — Diário Carioca

Not much of an international market for donkey meat. Something like 30% of Argentian beef is exported, so the domestic price is going to directly impacted by the international price.

IDK about Argentina but donkeys in the US are c****. As long as you’re not picky about temperament or breeding quality you can get them for 250-500 dollars. Occasionally you’ll see foul tempered jacks selling for 100 bucks. If all you care about is meat and have no ethical issues eating donkey meat it’s c**** protein.

Because donkey meat is a byproduct of donkey hides, China has been buying large quantities of donkey hides from around the world (It has even become pillar industry of Pakistan), to produce a type of local health supplement, which has driven down the price of donkey meat. The same thing happens with ducks, since duck meat is also a byproduct of duck feathers, which are used to make down jackets. Donkey meat is actually really delicious. In my view even better than beef. I highly recommend giving it a try.

>why are donkey meat cheaper than beef? My answer is going to be pure speculation based on no evidence, but: availability. People gotta eat something and if beef/chicken/pork aren't readily available or affordable....

Definitely not my preferred kind though.

Lots of argentinian gas and petrol is not yet explored, with the fields of vaca muerta proving difficult for argentine to explore on its own, so its been a back and forth between argentina and petrobras on the exploration and transportation rights of the region.

In Italy the stufato di musso served with polenta is a staple of Alps food.

Is it anything similar to horse meat?

Argentine elections be like, choosing either Hitler or Stalin

The issue is that the previous Argentinian government had a long history of providing generous benefits, and when it came to paying for those benefits, just printing more money to cover the cost. The idea was that a good percentage of the country were direct beneficiaries of these benefits and they would vote to preserve them, keeping that party in power, even if the country was headed for proverbial hell in a handbasket. (There really are people like that! I remember one discussion with an Argentine college student who thought that losing their full government-paid education subsidy was terrible, and that 100% annual inflation was a totally reasonable thing to deal with in exchange...) Milei's reduced the spending so that Argentina's at least kind of close to "responsible spending" levels (not really, but it's not like the US can criticize here these days...) That's good in the sense that inflation is down by a LOT and the economy is actually starting to recover. At the same time, there were a hell of a lot of people getting government checks that now aren't, and not everyone that lost their support was an undeserving grifter; there are some people who legitimately got screwed in the transition. The other party did not have an actual solution, aside from "keep doing the thing that's not working!"

No they didn't. Milei has a year or so more of his first term...

It's not like they had it better before.

Its Argentina. Its been riding one insane collapse driven by screwed up policies that someone pulled out of their rear since shortly after the invention of sliced bread. They haven't exactly had much experience with sane leadership so this is to be expected. The rest of us are catching up, however.

A donkey in every pot

Russia flooded them disinformation campaigns and propaganda to help get him re-elected.

The only reason people are downvoting you is because they’ve never met a donkey. They are intelligent, wonderful creatures

What makes you think they are mistakes?