MEAT FOR GERMANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 16 October 1912, Page 4

MEAT FOR GERMANY.

The prices of meat in Germany are, it is stated, the direct result of thci way in which the Government has protected the agrarian interests in return for political support. The restrictions which hedge round the importation of cattle and meat into Germany are practically prohibitive. Jt is not merely a question of keeping out the foreigner from the German markets—even the German colonists are kept out. Jn German South-west Africa thousands of cattle are nrsvd each year, but not a single head <>i

these cattle readies the fatherland. It is regarded as certain that the agitation in Germany against the food duties will be successful before very long. There is no other way of dealing with the food famine that is threatening than by lowering or abolishing the food duties. British firms which are interested in the frozen meat trade are looking forward eagerly to the time when German ports will be thrown open to shipments of frozen meat from Australia, New Zealand, and the Argentine. Germany, with its population of sixty millions, offers an immense field for the development of the frozen meat trade. Already good progress lias been made in developing the trade in Italy and Switzerland in spite of the difficulties that had to lie encountered, and the prejudices that had to be overdone, but Germany offers far more scope for the trade than any other country in Europe. This opinion is freely expressed by writers in I the Home press.