Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. Statistical

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CHAPTER 1. STATISTICAL. (i) Supplies.—The annual volume in Great Britain, during the ast 15 years of home, as compared with imported, supplies of beef, veal, mutton and lamb, taken together, is shown approxi- mately in Diagram A (opposite), while Table I, on p. 58, shows the position in Great Britain and Ireland, since the beginning of the present century, as regards meat supplies of all kinds, including pigmeat. Veal supplies in this and other Tables are classed with beef, and it is not possible to separate them. As far as this country is concerned, however, the quantity of imported veal consumed compared with imported beef, mutton and lamb, is insignificant. It will be observed that home- produced beef furnishes about half of the total quantities of beef available for consumption; in the case of mutton and lamb, home-produced supplies represent a smaller proportion. It will be observed, too, that although the total supplies available for sonsumption in Great Britain have increased, slightly though it may be over pre-war figures, the quota of home-produced supplies nas steadily declined. There is considerable difference of opinion as to whether consumption per head is increasing in this country. Meat traders stated in evidence before the Royal Commission on Food Prices that, in their experience, less meat is consumed in middle-class households than before the war; the view that consumption per family is less than formerly was also supported by the evidence of a representative of the consumers’ co-operative movement. On the other hand, there is support for the view that the per capita consumption of meat among the poorer classes has gone up in recent vears. Importers certainly hold the view that consumption is increasing, but are influenced, no doubt, in this bv the larger quantities of imported meat now passing through their hands. The fact remains, however, that while the population has increased by roughly 4} per cent. since 1913, available supplies of heef, veal, mutton and lamb have increased by less than 2 per cent. over the average for the five years prior to the war, and if account is taken of the fact, which seems to be generally agreed, that there is now more wastage in the trade, judged by the quantities of meat sent to the soap boiler,* it seems probable that the total consumption of beef, veal, mutton and lamb, per head, over the country as a whole, has, in fact, declined somewhat since the vears preceding the war. Regarding the source of imported supplies, Table 1I, p. 59, shows the arrivals, month by month, for the year 1924, of frozen beef. mutton and lamb from Australia. New Zealand and South * Royal Commission on Food Prices. Sir Philip Proctor’s evidence, Q. 2397. f See also para. 4. “Report of Imperial Economic Committee.” ‘mcd. 24090 19925

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