March 26, 2004

Australia Pork Sales Exceed Poultry

Australians are now buying more fresh pork meals than fresh chicken, according to a new survey, The Roy Morgan survey of fresh meat serve purchases found Australians bought 28.8 million serves of fresh pork in the December quarter.

It was a 22.2 per cent increase over the 2002 December quarter. For the first time, more than a fifth of all fresh meat purchases were of pork.