Global meat consumption is growing at 2% per year
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Last Update: 2002-09-12
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Introduction: on September 12, the food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said at this week's Intergovernmental meat and dairy conference that, with the growth of population, the increase of income and the influx of a large number of people into cities, the global meat consumption will increase by two percent per year by 2015 However, the food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has warned that the rapid development of meat trade and transport chains among countries has also increased the risk of the spread of animal diseases According to the FAO, since the early 1980s, global meat production, consumption and trade have expanded considerably, especially poultry meat and pork, which are mainly affected by population growth, income growth, urbanization, changes in eating habits and market opening Compared with the growth rate of 0.6% in developed countries, the annual growth rate of meat consumption in developing countries can reach 2.7% The U.N Food and Agriculture Organization says recent outbreaks of animal diseases in several major meat exporting countries, such as mad cow disease, have accelerated the shift from red meat to domestic poultry, and it predicts that the demand for white meat will increase much more than that for red meat The UN Food Agency forecasts that the demand for poultry meat will increase by 2.9% per year before 2015, compared with 1.4% for beef.
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