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Argentina’s President, Cristina Fernandez, is promoting the pig farming industry by making claims that eating pork improves your sex life.

"Eating pork improves your sex life. I'd say it's a lot nicer to eat a bit of grilled pork than take Viagra," she states in an address to Argentina's pig farming industry. "And let me tell you, I am a big fan of pork meat, and I am not just saying that to look good here."

In the video below, she refers to a successful weekend with her husband after having eaten a sumptuous meal of pork. She suggests, "Trying it doesn't cost anything, so let's give it a go.”

Reuters reports that Argentinians are the world’s largest consumers of beef and the President’s office is trying to promote pork to diversify the meat industry and address rising prices of beef.

Though President Fernandez offered no scientific evidence to support her claim, she was met with applause and her speech sparked a debate with regard to the validity of her statements. One specialist who helps clients with sexual dysfunction told Argentinean newspaper, La Nacion, "There is no study showing that pork meat significantly improves sexual activity."

Not surprisingly, the head of the Association of Pork Producers backed up Fernandez’s claims with reference to Japanese culture. "In Osaka, Japan, there is a village in which the people who reached 105 years old and ate a lot of pork had a lot of sexual activity," he said. Until scientific research demonstrates a causal link between pork consumption and improved sex, Argentinians will have to take (or not take) the word of their President.