Meat production in Germany is down by 4% in 2023

Meat production in Germany will again fall significantly in 2023. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports, commercial slaughterhouses produced 6.8 million tons of meat in 2023, according to preliminary results. That was 4.0% or 280,200 tons less than the year before. This means that domestic meat production has fallen for the seventh year in a row since the peak in 2016 (8.25 million tonnes). After a relatively slight decline compared to 2017, meat production in 2022 fell by 8.1% compared to the previous year, and now meat production has again fallen significantly in 2023. In 2023, a total of 47.9 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses and 702.2 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were slaughtered in slaughterhouses. Pork: slaughter volume decreased by 6.8% With 43.8 million animals slaughtered in 2023, the number of pigs slaughtered decreased by 7.0% or 3.3 million compared to the previous year. The number of domestic pigs slaughtered fell by 7.7% to almost ...