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The U.S. Embassy, Packets Imports and Eladio Restaurant will celebrate the large-scale arrival of U.S. premium beef cuts to the Chilean market by hosting a dinner for the U.S. resident community and all food lovers to sample delicious preparations of flank steak, skirt steak, t-bone and short ribs. U.S. Ambassador Alejandro D. Wolff will open the event that will include wine tasting and live music.

We hope to see you on Sunday, August 7, for a "True American Beef" experience.

Eladio Restaurant : Av. Ossa 2234 – La Reina
R.S.V.P. : 378-6323
Menu : CH$15.000 per person Kids 10 and under CH$8.000 per child

Get the full story here:

http://www.ilovechile.cl/2011/07/29/cel ... hile/25777

Seeing quite a few Chilean cows here, taking into account all the southern grasslands suitable for pasturage, this news sounds a bit weird, and ridiculous. Have a happy "True American Beef" experience.

Oh yeah I forgot only the US should buy from Chile, Chile shouldn't buy from the US. How silly of me

araucaniax wrote:Seeing quite a few Chilean cows here, taking into account all the southern grasslands suitable for pasturage, this news sounds a bit weird, and ridiculous. Have a happy "True American Beef" experience.

I second that!

Though I am not in the business of telling who should buy from whom, I would note that there is a small shop in the village, wherein the owner runs his own campo locally, and so all the beef in the shop -- it comes right from there, just a couple of kilometers from the said shop. I would prefer this kind of thing to keep going, and so I buy only from him -- regularly. Have a very happy and nice "True American Beef" experience.

It is a global economy these days. I do love when people say 'Buy Local'. I wonder where Chile's wine and fruit industries would be if the US, UK, Canada and Australia all said that to Chile. Let's get rid of FTA's and all buy local

Just research: mass factory farmed, grain fed and finished, antibiotic laden meat vs. happier, entire life cycle grass pastured beef where the owner is too cheap to buy grain feed (so no Omega 6 unbalancing, GMO, herbicides, pesticides) or use antibiotics.

I'll take the strongly grassy tasting, tougher, high Omega 3 and CLA beef any day.

What I do like is the price competition. If it can bring Cat V down a little, so much the better.

thegringoshow wrote:It is a global economy these days. I do love when people say 'Buy Local'. I wonder where Chile's wine and fruit industries would be if the US, UK, Canada and Australia all said that to Chile. Let's get rid of FTA's and all buy local

Well I can speak for Canada in the wine department, buying local is overpriced and not very good. Wine is always a quality/value choice, well unless you are Catholic (or Anglican) and its Sunday morning mass, when you get what is being served.

It seem odd to ship American cuts of beef south, if there was a market for the cuts, the butchers would cut the beef in Chile to the format required after all American cows don’t have any extra parts..... or do they, maybe it’s GM beef

patagoniax wrote:.
I wonder if Ax' homegrown protectionism also extends to shunning the consumption of other foods and products that did not originate in his neighbourhood. Grains sent to Chile from the US and Canada, chicken from Argentina, fruit from the US and Argentina, yogurt and other dairy from NZ, cheeses from Europe, olive and other oils from Europe, pork and other meats from Brazil, fruit and grains from Peru and Ecuador, seafood from Spain and Portugal, .... why, we could make a nice list of products where origin rather than price and wholesomeness becomes the principal decision factor. And we could encourage those in other countries to do likewise.

War stories: Colorado used to have, perhaps still does, an ABC or "Always Buy Colorado" programme. Years ago I found ABC-programme olive oil in Colorado. WTF? Colorado won't have productive olive groves until year 2098 of Global Warming. Turns out that the distributor simply rebottled the Spanish oil within Colorado to get credit for "Always Buy Colorado." Protectionism can be sucky.

BC and Ontario sold wine for many years “cellared in Canada” it was bulk wine from all over the world, but to consumers it looked as if it was Canadian wine, hell a bottle of Merlot may have had South African, Chilean, USAian and Australian wine in it, probably nothing from Europe because Merlot would not be sold cheap enough in bulk from Bordeaux. This program ended 2 years ago and not without some very red faces.

nwdiver wrote:

thegringoshow wrote:It is a global economy these days. I do love when people say 'Buy Local'. I wonder where Chile's wine and fruit industries would be if the US, UK, Canada and Australia all said that to Chile. Let's get rid of FTA's and all buy local

Well I can speak for Canada in the wine department, buying local is overpriced and not very good. Wine is always a quality/value choice, well unless you are Catholic (or Anglican) and its Sunday morning mass, when you get what is being served.

It seem odd to ship American cuts of beef south, if there was a market for the cuts, the butchers would cut the beef in Chile to the format required after all American cows don’t have any extra parts..... or do they, maybe it’s GM beef

simple

1. chile has a shortage of beef, and whats here is priced to high
2. the peso vs the $
3. rising production costs in south america (chile)

Right now good time to import, if the $ vs peso changes back to 550 to $1, then i guess it would be over for them unless they adict the local population to grain fed beef

patagoniax wrote:.
I wonder if Ax' homegrown protectionism also extends to shunning the consumption of other foods and products that did not originate in his neighbourhood. Grains sent to Chile from the US and Canada, chicken from Argentina, fruit from the US and Argentina, yogurt and other dairy from NZ, cheeses from Europe, olive and other oils from Europe, pork and other meats from Brazil, fruit and grains from Peru and Ecuador, seafood from Spain and Portugal, .... why, we could make a nice list of products where origin rather than price and wholesomeness becomes the principal decision factor. And we could encourage those in other countries to do likewise.

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Though this is not "protectionism", nor any other "...ism", yet, I do buy grains from Chile, and so beans, and quinoa, chicken and eggs from my village, fruit from Chile, milk from the neighbor, farmer's cheeses from the 9th and 10th region, butter from the 10th region, olive oil from the 7th region (Talca), meats from the 9th region, seafood from Chile.

eeuunikkeiexpat wrote:Just research: mass factory farmed, grain fed and finished, antibiotic laden meat vs. happier, entire life cycle grass pastured beef where the owner is too cheap to buy grain feed (so no Omega 6 unbalancing, GMO, herbicides, pesticides) or use antibiotics.

I'll take the strongly grassy tasting, tougher, high Omega 3 and CLA beef any day.

What I do like is the price competition. If it can bring Cat V down a little, so much the better.

Corn fed beef that is finished off at a feed lot just isn't as healthy as grass fed beef. I for one don't miss the US cuts, they are in a different form here but it is the same thing. if you can learn the language here you can learn to eat steak in a different shape. The reason meat in the US is so cheap is because of many corners being cut in food safety and nutrition. Cows can't actually digest corn naturally and it sickens them, changes the ph in their stomachs to create e coli resistant to human stomach acid levels(e coli in grass fed beef is normally killed in the human stomach as it is not adapted to high acidity) and destroys cattle's immune systems making huge doses of antibiotics essential. For those of you that absolutely have to have your US cuts you are welcome to them, just don't expect me to get excited about it. What saddens me is that Eladios is one of my favorite steak houses here and if they are importing grain fed, GM, antibiotic ridden meat in from the US then I will have to go downtown to Vacas Gordas more often