Grocery Stores Lock Up Their Meat in Brazil as Inflation Makes Steaks Too Pricey
- Surging prices hit poor hardest, exacerbating inequality
- Makeshift cookers, alarms on meat cuts show toll of crisis
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Signs of the pain wrought by inflation are everywhere in the favelas that ring Brazil’s metropolises.
There’s the scavenged firewood replacing cooking gas in kitchens; and the fish heads and bones dropped into stews instead of beef and chicken; and the intricate alarm tags that grocers are wrapping around cuts of steak to discourage theft; and the wave of graffiti that’s emblazoned the word “hunger” in bold letters on building after building.