And in Argentina, beef is so delicious and so cheap, the standard practice of folks I visited there is to buy 2 pounds in the morning, eat what you like during the day, and then give the rest to the dog in the evening. Repeat the next day.
I don't know if it's for real or not, but I remember seeing a statistic that the average Brazilian ate five times the amount of beef as the average American. And the average Argentine ate three times the amount of the average Brazilian!
Of course they are all grass fed cattle there, which certainly makes a difference, and there was none of the standard aging that we see here. When I bought beef at the butcher shop in the afternoon, it was likely that the cow had met its maker that morning.