“What goes on in… other markets of the world is going to drive the economic success of our pork industry.”
That’s because Canada’s pork consumption is stagnant or relatively declining, while foreign pork consumption has been growing.
That’s particularly true of Asia, which favours pork as a meat source and has seen huge increased demand from China in particular. Without that demand, Canada would have trouble moving its mountains of pork.
“In the longer term, given the importance of pork globally… is that going to remain a huge (demand) driver… or are supplies going to adjust in Asia, in a way we will not see export (demand) in the future?” said Goddard.
“How temporary is this huge demand for pork?”
Overall, Goddard sees lots of support for future pork demand from much of the planet. More countries in the world are protein deficient than protein-sufficient, so there shouldn’t be any lagging of total protein demand.
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