Churrasco is a Spanish and Portuguese term referring to beef or grilled meat more generally, differing across Latin America and Europe, but a primary dish in the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, Uruguay and other Latin American countries.A churrascaria is a restaurant serving grilled meat, many offering as much as you can eat: the waiters […]

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A picture really can say a thousand words. And, while a week-long trip through Brazil’s cattle country can only scratch the surface of this country’s vast beef industry, it goes a long way in learning a few facts and dispelling a few myths.

The country produces almost 7 million metric tons of beef each year from […]

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Brazil is the world’s top beef, coffee, and orange juice exporter and is racing to surpass US farmers in overseas soy markets. But the clear-cutting and tree-burning to make way for huge farms threaten the planet’s ability to resist global warming and has turned the Amazon into a massive carbon-emitting polluter. Brazil is now the […]

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