Zing Tsjeng
speaker
4,926 appearances
19 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They can even be found at meetings in the White House.
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Probably worthy of a movie.
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So let us set the opening scenes.
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and he supplied meat to the cafeterias at the construction sites building this new capital.
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In 1968, he expanded his business with the purchase of his first cattle processing unit, an abattoir, a slaughterhouse, in other words, in the Brazilian state of Goiás.
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Within two years, it had quadrupled its slaughter rate from 30 cattle per day to 120, and he named his company Freeboy,
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In 1972, that is a combination of refrigerator and bull, which is exactly what they were selling.
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And that year, 1972, Wesley and Joesley were both born.
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Only 10 months between them, they had four siblings, one older brother and three sisters.
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Yeah, but sheer numbers mean little in the beef industry.
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What's more important is the rate of slaughter.
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And that in 1972 was Brazil's biggest obstacle because its slaughter rate, these are horrible measures, isn't it, for a country?
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Why is that?
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Well, poor quality pastures meant cows had less nutrition, so they had to wait longer until they were fattened up.
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They had to wait until they were five years old to slaughter, compared with just 30 months in Argentina or 16 months in the United States.
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Yeah, I think process or something is probably the word they would use.
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Processing speed.
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Yeah.
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And this story reminds me of other ones we've seen where a business or a person finds themselves at a crossroads of what's going on in the country and they're kind of in the right place at the right time because this is
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was the beginning of the Brazilian beef boom, and the Bautista family did very well during the 1970s.
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