Germany produces more meat than last year

This is evident from new figures from the statistics office Destatis. In total, 3.4 million tonnes of meat were produced in German slaughterhouses in the first six months of this year. 62 percent of the meat comes from pigs. This is followed by poultry meat (23 percent) and beef (14.6 percent). Meat from sheep, goats and horses accounts for only 0.4 percent of German meat production. This is the first time since 2016 that there has been a slight increase in pork production. In the first half of the year, 21.9 million pigs were slaughtered in German slaughterhouses. This is an increase of 0.4 percent (78,100 animals). 96.6 percent of these pigs come from Germany itself, the rest from other countries (734,000 pigs). From abroad The number of foreign pigs slaughtered in Germany, including from the Netherlands, fell by 1.1 percent compared to the first half of 2023. The amount of pork produced in the first half of 2024 was 2.1 million tons. An increase of 1.1 percent. Beef production ...