It Seems Cuba is Saying Goodbye to Beef

It Seems Cuba is Saying Goodbye to Beef
Posted on June 12, 2013
By Ignacio Estrada

Havana, Cuba: For decades Cubans have seem themselves constrained with
it comes to putting beef on the table. A type of meet that causes stage
fright in those who have never imagined themselves on a stage.

To date, no one knows why they are doing what the popular voice
continues to pass from mouth to mouth: the final goodbye to red meat.
The truth is that after the triumph of the ill-fated Revolution of 1959,
this meat could only be enjoyed onthe tables of those in the highest
economic echelons, or at the very least, who are members of the clan in
power in the Cuban State.

It was our apostle José Martí who said in one of his poems … children
are born to be happy … but maybe this can only be in Cuba until an age
of somewhere between seven and nine years, after which they are stripped
of dairy products and beef. Products only delivered back to them in old
age or after acquiring any chronic disease and a medical prescription.

According to what the butchers themselves have commented, beef can now
be purchased only on the black market or in the network that works on
hard currency, the CUC; as of now those who had received this product
get only poultry (chicken).

A situation that has led everyone to complaining and even quoting that
the Bolivian President Evo Morales said in a television appearance where
he claimed that it is the chicken, carrier of female cells, that alter
the system in men, causing them to become homosexual.

I don't know what will happen if this comment becomes reality. I think
and have talked to some colleagues about the unfair crime of Theft and
Slaughter of Cattle, Receiving Their Meat and The Sale of It, which is
considered an Attack on the Cuban Economy, a crime that has put
thousands of innocent people behind bars. And that in a country that
does not practice the Hindu religion where the cow becomes a sacred
animal, something inexplicable.

What is laughable is that the animal whose meat is called Red Gold, is
only forbidden for the lower class and for families who rely entirely on
their basic wages. While a group that criticizes us may continue to
acquire meat thanks to remittances received from family and friends from
abroad. Now there are those who enjoy impunity, and knowing that an
entire people is denied this product they will continue to put it on
their tables along with other delicacies that only they can enjoy.

As comments have corroborated, over the past two months they have been
giving us only chicken, instead of beef. A fact that is already making
many think that if this is truly Cubans' last farewell to beef, from
fear many don't even mention its name but rather call it, "Tilapia from
the Pasture."

10 June 2013

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