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Over 35 Belgian meat suppliers provide excellent quality, customised cuts of meat in a quick manner.

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€ 1.5 billion

export turnover

In 2017, the export of Belgian pork and beef was worth € 1.5 billion.

66%

export volume

66% of the Belgian pork and beef produced is destined for export.

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Global meat consumption on the increase

The total meat consumption in Europe is rising. Pork and poultry collectively represent 80% of the total meat consumption and their share is growing. It is expected that meat consumption will still be rising slightly in 2018, mainly owing to poultry, and that it will then start to stagnate.

Meat in the post-truth era

Public opinion is increasingly influenced by emotions and options rather than by objective facts, this also called post-truth. This leads to a trend towards sensation. Prof. Leroy researched the impact of this evolution on the image of meat, that became a pawn in the war between meat-lovers and the anti-meat lobby in the mass media.

Belgian Meat Office brings together the European meat trade press at the Round Table

On the 29th and 30th of August, Belgian Meat Office organized its 13th edition of the Round Table: a pr-event attended by 20 journalists from the European meat trade press.

Agenda

26.01.19 - 30.01.19

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Diagnosis of African swine fever in Belgium

On 14 September 2018, the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) communicated the diagnosis of African swine fever (ASF virus) in two boars in the south of the Belgian province of Luxembourg. It is a very contagious viral disease that affects only pigs and boars.