EATING MORE MEAT
SMITHFIELD FIGURES Recent figures indicate that beef is eaten in England in increasing quantities: —- . .. In 11126 more meat was eaten than ever before, and the report of Smithfield Market for 1927 shows that last year, too, was a record ye>ir. Supplies of meat and poultry to the market during 1927 totalled 489.290 tons, as compared with 480,.38 tons ,n 1926, an increase of 9,052 tons. British and Irish produce formed ■>7 7 per cent, of Vie total supplies. Dominion produce 19.4 per cent., and foreign produce 52.9 per cent. WHERE IT CAME FROM Where the meat came from is shown bv the following figures: 'Beef and Weal.—Argentina sent -01 064 tons, or 76.8 per cent, of the total quantity marketed. ' Mutton and La mb.—New Zealand sent 65,660 tons, or 43.7 o<,, C ? nt '' Great Britain and Ireland. 39,9-1 tons. ° r Great P ßritMn and Ireland supplied the greatest amounts of pork, bacon and poultry,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 312, 24 March 1928, Page 25
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