GREATEST MEAT-EATERS.

Western Star, 26 July 1935, Page 3

GREATEST MEAT-EATERS.

200 LB A HEAD A YEAR Among the word’s greatest meat eaters are the peoples of New Zealand, Australia, and Argentina, where more than 2001 b a year a head are consumed. Great Britain, the United States, and Canada consume 1501 b a head.

This ia one of the facts given in a report dealing with the production of, arid trade in, meat in the principal countries in the world and issued by the Imperial Economic Committee recently. , “The growing preference for lamb in tho United Kingdom,” the committee states, “is indicated by the figures given, which show that the proportion of lamb in the combined imports of mutton and lamb has increased from 50 per cent, in y 928 to 75 per cent, in 1934. The United Kingdom takes 95 per cent, of the world trade 1 in mutton and lamb.” In Great Britain, between 1925 and 1932, the report states, beef and veal consumption was estimated to have declined from 70Jlb to 62Jlb per head, and pig meat and mutton to have risen respectively from 431 b to 511 b and from 261 bto 321 b. In 1933, However, beef and veal consumption in Great Britain increased to 6441 b per head, pig meat remained about the same at 32Jib; Beef again increased in 1934, while pig meat declined further.