Carne de cuarta para consumidores de cuarta

Abstract

INTERESTING FOR CORINNE (as a good case study of a persistingly "underdeveloped", informal meat distribution system in Bogota) Official Abstract: This is a study of beef retailing in Bogotá (Colombia), and especially about the persistence of informal networks of sale and consump- tion. In my view, informality is responsible for two concomitant and seemingly opposite phenomena: high meat prices (the result of a long, unproductive, and inefficient supply chain), and the distribution of poor quality meat, slaughtered under questionable hygienic conditions, which in fact allows the poorest people to gain access to it. I begin this article by examining the importance of beef in Colombia. I then explore why it is so expensive, and describe the structure of its retailing and consumption chain. I end by discussing the implications of informal retailing and the impact of new, “modernizing” regulations that are being imposed. Precios inferiores del mercado (sin control ni nada)EN: 106: Ganaderia en centro de violencia en zonas de conflicto. 108: Carne mas cara por extra-costos por conflicto (extorsion, seguridad privada etc.) 109: Metzgerei nahe beim Konsument, nicht nahe beim Produzent! 115: Persistencia de comercio informal de la carne. Mejor carne no refrigerada sino fresca (animal muerto hace poquito). Cada tiendita tiene que tener carne para que gente encuentre todo a la vez. Mas control puede significar mas mataderos irregulares.