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Live Bird Markets Are Coming Back in China by Popular Demand
Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) -- China is reopening some live bird markets in the south of the country because that’s the way the locals like their fowl -- freshly killed.
“We only buy chicken slaughtered in the markets to ensure that the meat is fresh, and it’s more delicious than the chilled variety sold in supermarkets,” said Rosie Luo, a student from Foshan city, Guangdong province.
While live animal markets are suspected of being the source of the novel coronavirus and some other diseases, the authorities had no choice but to let them reopen because some people won’t buy their meat anywhere else. And that’s important in a year when people need a cheap alternative to pork, which is in short supply because of virus lockdowns and African swine fever.
Poultry consumption in its various forms is rebounding as the country recovers from the coronavirus outbreak. That’s partly down to a plunge in pork output, which fell almost 30% in the first quarter from a year earlier, as swine fever cut herds and the lockdowns disrupted transport and labor.
Worsening pork shortages should push up demand for chicken as sales of fast food, such as burgers, delivered to people’s homes and of chilled meat in supermarkets are seen rising, according to Kong Pingtao, general manager at agriculture industry portal www.boyar.cn.
Live Fowl Preferred
Poultry produc...:tiphat:https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/live-bir...mand-1.1423783
Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) -- China is reopening some live bird markets in the south of the country because that’s the way the locals like their fowl -- freshly killed.
“We only buy chicken slaughtered in the markets to ensure that the meat is fresh, and it’s more delicious than the chilled variety sold in supermarkets,” said Rosie Luo, a student from Foshan city, Guangdong province.
While live animal markets are suspected of being the source of the novel coronavirus and some other diseases, the authorities had no choice but to let them reopen because some people won’t buy their meat anywhere else. And that’s important in a year when people need a cheap alternative to pork, which is in short supply because of virus lockdowns and African swine fever.
Poultry consumption in its various forms is rebounding as the country recovers from the coronavirus outbreak. That’s partly down to a plunge in pork output, which fell almost 30% in the first quarter from a year earlier, as swine fever cut herds and the lockdowns disrupted transport and labor.
Worsening pork shortages should push up demand for chicken as sales of fast food, such as burgers, delivered to people’s homes and of chilled meat in supermarkets are seen rising, according to Kong Pingtao, general manager at agriculture industry portal www.boyar.cn.
Live Fowl Preferred
Poultry produc...:tiphat:https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/live-bir...mand-1.1423783