More expensive than veal: in Ukraine, "meat for the poor" is being sold at sky-high prices

In Ukraine, nutria meat is sold at a price of up to 500 hryvnias per kilogram, which can be compared to the price of a kilogram of venison or one and a half kilograms of veal. This is reported by Kurkul. It is noted that nutria meat has no distinct taste and resembles lamb or pork and is considered dietary. In the 1980s, Ukraine accounted for almost half of the Soviet Union's nutria farming, with a profitability of 100%. At that time, the USSR provided 40% of the world's nutria fur production. Since then, this direction has gradually declined in Ukraine, giving way to more familiar sectors of the food and fur industries. However, foreign press often refers to nutria meat as "meat for the poor." During the Second World War, the USSR also imported nutria to support food needs. In the USA, particularly in Louisiana, nutria were hunted and consumed for meat for decades. Nutria farming in Ukraine is currently a niche industry with great untapped potential. The animals are very ...