The avian flu is creating a shortage of meat and the opening of new markets
Tokyo (AsiaNews) The avian flu is wreaking havoc in the meat market in Japan. The total embargo on poultry imports from Thailand (and Indonesia) is causing many families to give up eating poultry altogether. The reduction in consumption has generated a decline in the cost of poultry meat to 15 percent. Thailand produces a quarter of the poultry in the world (after the United States, Brazil and the European Union) and is the largest exporter of bird meat to Japan. In the last year, the discovery of the avian flu in imported Chinese duck meat provoked the nearly total arrest of bird meat imports from China in Japan. The embargo on imports from Thailand came one month after the embargo on imports of beef meat from United States and Canada, due to the discovery of some cases of "mad cow disease" in North America and in Canada.
According to the news agency Bloomberg, the major Japanese commercial companies, such as Marubeni and Mitsubishi, immediately sent their representatives in Brazil to negotiate the sale of other cuts of meat. Ken Yamaguchi of Mitsubishi declared: "If the embargo lasts much longer, everyone will buy from Brazil and the prices will rise." The diffusion of the avian flu is negatively impacting the daily life of many people in Asia who only a short time ago gained the possibility of eating animal protein.
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17/08/2004
28/01/2004
17/01/2004
