(and) have their barbecue again," Lula said on Twitter in May, a vow he has since repeated several times on the campaign trail.Īlso Read | Jair Bolsonaro slams federal police for raids over Brazil 'coup plot'īut with Brazil's cattle herds increasingly fed on pastures recently deforested in the Amazon, some see the leftist challenger's pledge as at odds with another key campaign promise to stop deforestation of the South American country's fast-vanishing rainforest, a crucial bulwark against climate change. "The people will go back to eating a picanha (a popular beef cut), a rib. With inflation soaring and incomes shrinking, beef has become dearer in Brazil and access to food - including the juicy cuts long a staple of Brazilian barbecues - has become a key theme in the race. Among a raft of more conventional presidential campaign promises, Brazil's former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - who aims to unseat President Jair Bolsonaro in October polls - has included an unusual pledge: to give Brazilians back their beef.
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