Australians are eating more pork
Pork has become the second-favourite meat for Aussie's, behind chicken, when fresh and processed pork products are combined.
The demand has grown by 5% in the last 12 months (an extra 1kg added in the menu), reports The West Australian newspaper, quoting data released by Australian Pork. Fresh pork products have seen an increase in consumption from 8.5kg per year to 11.6 kg in the last 7 years.
Most of the pig meat produced in Australia is delivered in the domestic market, with West Australia playing a significant role in pig production (14.4%). The industry contributed with AU$ 5.2 billion (US$ 3.8 billion) at the country's GDP in 2015-2016.
"Australian Pork is high quality and produced to our high standards, plus it’s delicious and versatile", explains Peter Haydon, Australian Pork’s manager of marketing.
All the fresh pork in the Australian market come from the local farms and the representative body of the industry is taking pride in the quality and high welfare standards. "Pork in itself is worth eating because it’s lean and much leaner than beef and even than some fish species, so it has all the health benefits.
It is high quality and it is produced to very high welfare standards. Many imported products won’t be produced to the same standards. Fresh pork is always Australian", David Lock, Australian Pork chairman, said.
The Australian Pork Industry Quality Assurance Program Certified Free Range and Outdoor Bred sow herd increased by 12 per cent between July 2015 and July 2018. The entire herd grew over that period with the percentage of free range rising and outdoor bred falling slightly; combined, they have remained at the same level of about 11 per cent.
Between June 2017 and May 2018, the country's pigmeat production was more than 418,000 tonnes of which 43,958 tonnes were exported mainly to Asia-Pacific countries such as Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Philippines and Papua New Guinea. At the same time imports reached a volume of 164,773 tonnes with USA, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands as top suppliers.
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