Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture Circular: Livestock and Meat; July, 1981
The changing patterns in meat consumption the past 5 or 10 years evolved even further in 1980 as less expensive pork and poultry continued to replace beef in many diets. This trend may abate somewhat in 1981 because per capita pork consumption is expected to fall in the United States, Canada, the ussr, and major pork consuming countries in Asia. Per capita beef consumption declined widely last year outside of some Central and South American beef producing countries. Weaker economic conditions and higher feed costs explain the smaller use of beef. On a per capita basis, Japan and the EC consumed less beef in 1980 for the first time in 5 years while the United States and Canada both decreased their beef consumption. In many countries pork was substituted for beef. The United States and the EC continued to show steadily higher pork consumption. However, in the USSR and Poland feed shortages forced hog slaughter weights down and restrained pork consumption in 1980. The Dominican Republic also suffered a decline following an effort to eradicate African Swine Fever in its hog population. Asia's largest per capita consumer of pork, Taiwan, also reduced consumption as swine producers adjusted to a 1979 oversupply situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.