Second year of unprecedented decline in global meat production

Carcasses of meat.

(Illustration) -

A second year of historic decline.

While global meat production stood at 341 million tonnes in 2018, it is expected to peak at 333 million tonnes for 2020.

This 1.7% drop is unprecedented, since world meat production has never been at half mast two years in a row.

In question ?

The African swine fever epidemic which struck in 2019, then the coronavirus crisis which has lasted for almost a year, as explained in video Brut, partner of

.

Society

Avian influenza: A first case detected in France

Economy

Conso: What are the guarantees behind made in France?

• Consumption

• Production

• Meat

• Gross

• Planet