Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930

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Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930 is written by Maria-Aparecida Lopes and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000414728 (ISBN 10) and 9781000414721 (ISBN 13).

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s, Rio was Brazil’s economic hub, main industrial city, and prime consumer market. Meat consumption was an indicator of living standards and a matter of public concern. The work unveils that in the second half of the nineteenth century, the city was well supplied with red meat. Initially, dwellers relied mostly on salted meat; then, in the latter decades of the 1800s, two sets of changes upgraded fresh meat deliveries. First, ranching expansion and transportation innovation in southeast and central-west Brazil guaranteed a continuous flow of cattle to Rio. Second, the municipal centralization of meat processing and distribution made its provision regular and predictable. By the early twentieth century, fresh meat replaced salted meat in the urban marketplace. This study examines these developments in light of national and global developments in the livestock and meat industries.