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This indicator shows meat (bovine, pork and poultry) consumption trends and is relevant to environmental issues as meat products have generally high negative environmental impacts.
Table 1: Supply of dairy products and different types of meats in the EU (kg/capita/year) - Source: FAOSTAT
In each year period, the supply of 'pig meat' accounted for the highest EU meat supply per capita. The next type of meat, in order of its supply, for the EU as a whole is 'bovine meat'. In Figure 1, the percentage shrares of different types of meats from the total per-capita meat supply in the year 2007 are depicted.
Figure 1: the share of different types of meats from the total (kg/per-capita/year) meat supply in the year 2007- Source: FAOSTAT
The dynamics of the EU supply (kg/capita/year) of 'Bovine meat' for the time period year 2000-2007 are shown in Figure 2. As illustrated in the figure, the Bovine meat supply per-capita in the EU was fluctuating in this time period, dropped by 2.7% in 2001, however, increased by 2.3% in 2007 with respect to yaer 2000.
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Figure 2: Bovine meat supply kg/capita/year in the EU - Source:FAOSTAT
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External links
FAOSTAT, FBS core data (http://faostat.fao.org/site/368/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=368#ancor) EuroStat-Consumption of certain foodstuffs per inhabitant (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/refreshTableAction.do;jsessionid=9ea7d07e30e6d7d6b5c08c0f4c08b6b4802eeb7964e8.e34OaN8Pc3mMc40Lc3aMaNyTa3mTe0? tab=table&plugin=1&pcode=tsdpc330&language=en) WHO global and regional food consumption trends (http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/3_foodconsumption/en/index.html)
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