1.   Also, demand should strengthen ahead of the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., when beef consumption rises with increased barbecuing, traders said.

2.   Anti-beef activists, two of them dressed in cow costumes, said they oppose beef consumption and support People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

3.   As Americans trim their beef consumption and discount stores gobble a bigger slice of the retail grocery business, supermarkets are looking for innovative ways to market more meat.

4.   Beef consumption is expected to stay strong through the warm-weather barbecuing season, analysts said.

5.   Beef consumption rises with warm weather to a summer peak with increased barbecuing.

6.   A sudden drop in beef consumption because of concerns about mad cow disease means far fewer animals are being slaughtered for meat.

7.   Across Europe, beef consumption has plummeted.

8.   Actual cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human manifestation of mad-cow disease, are minuscule compared with total European beef consumption, he said.

9.   But some industry executives worried that Argentina could see a decline in its beef exports to Europe if concern over the deadly disease caused overall beef consumption to drop.

10.   Cattlemen have stabilized American beef consumption after years of decline and have stepped up their search for export markets.