AFP, Brasilia :
Brazil’s government fought Wednesday to save the country’s meat industry from getting burned in a corruption scandal that has prompted several countries to pull Brazilian beef and chicken from the menu.
Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi did not mince his words.
“What we are suffering now is a blow, a punch to the stomach,” he told the Senate.
“We have to recover, to reorganize our forces, to travel around the world and to show that what happened here was that a few people did wrong but that the system or the industry was not at fault.”
