Europe Grows Ever More Meatless

If current trends continue, Europe will be ever more dependent on the import of meat to meet local demand, according to Jean-Luc M?riaux, chief of the European Livestock and Meat Trading Union.

Speaking in Sofia, the Union's secretary general said that there is a drop in supply and a corresponding heightening of deficit of meat vis-a-vis consumption.

According to data of the Union, the deficit is 20% for sheep and goat meat, and some 5% for beef.

There has been a tendency of a lowering of the number of livestock heads bred on the continent, which has not excluded Bulgaria, where herds have dropped by some 8.5%.

According to Meriaux this is a part of a trend that has been going for some years now.

He said it can be reversed with the help of instruments such as the EU's Common Agricultural policy which allows financial help for livestock breeders.

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