| 總結: | This paper is part of a larger investigation on the Mexican stockbreeding industry between the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Based on beef slaughter indexes, our goal is to reflect on the supply conditions in Mexico City (the main market of the country) and their relation to the stockbreeders in the North, within the same historical context. The main argument springs from the fact that the most recent historiography on the subject continues to repeat old statements that relate the so-called precarious levels of meat consumption in the country’s capital during the Porfirio Díaz administration with the meat exports to the United States carried out by northern stockbreeders. Existing evidence suggests that, in order to explain the meat supply deficiency in Mexico City, one must go past blaming the external market, as evinced when comparing the situation with the case of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Moreover, since the attempts at industrializing the meat sector were interrupted during the Revolution, the old supply system was maintained, but not without consequences for a population that, year after year, during the three first decades of the 20th century, added an increasingly lower meat portion to their diet.
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