With the rising price of pork, will fewer people eat pork in the future?

As the most consumed meat in China, pork has always been everyone's favorite, but since the price of pork has risen, the number of people who eat pork has decreased a lot. Lao Li the butcher has the most say. Lao Li sells a lot of meat in their market because he is very active. In the past, he could sell two pig IOUs a day, but now he can only sell half a pig IOUs a day.

Therefore, generally speaking, the soaring price of pork is not because of eating more meat, but because there are fewer pigs. In recent days, the price of live pigs has fluctuated again, which has a lot to do with the fact that pork prices are too high at this stage and consumers can't afford it. Originally, I thought that the price of pork could drop, but who would have thought that it had just dropped a dollar and then went up again?

With the increase in the price of live pigs, the consumption of pork will gradually decrease, because people will increase the consumption of milk and eggs; On the other hand, due to the "reluctance to sell" of breeding enterprises and farmers and the strong support of policies in recent months, under the "temptation" of continuous high prices, breeding enterprises and farmers will continue to expand pig production and increase the stock of fertile sows, and soon the stock of pigs will gradually stabilize or even rebound slightly. In fact, although the number of live pigs is still reduced by more than 20% year-on-year, this does not mean that there will be a "real" shortage of "pork" because the weight of live pigs is very different from last year. The same pig was slaughtered last year because of its low price, 180-200 kg. The output of pork is only about 140 kg (the meat yield of pigs under 200 kg is about 70%), but now the weight gain of pigs of 300 kg or even 350 kg can not only make up for the decrease in quantity, but also expand the supply of "pork". At present, it is precisely because the market feels that the "shortage" of pigs has led to the shortage of pork.

Recently, one of the topics that people in Shengzhou are most concerned about is the rising price of pork, and everyone reflects that the price of meat is expensive. The reporter learned from the Jiang Bin market in Shengzhou that the number of people who came to buy meat these days was significantly lower than that of the previous period. According to many business households, the price of live pigs is expensive due to the epidemic, which leads to the continuous rise of pork prices in Shengzhou City. Since the beginning of August, the pork price in Shengzhou has hit a new high in three years.

Ding, a merchant in Jiang Bin market in Shengzhou, told reporters: "Business is much worse now. I used to sell a pig a day, but now I can only sell half of it. Because pork is expensive, the profit is at least half less. Such a high pork purchase price has never been encountered before. "

It is understood that at present, the general pork price in Binjiang market is around one kilogram of 40 yuan, of which one kilogram of pork ribs and pork belly is in 48 yuan, so the sales volume is affected. Yu Gang, a citizen of Shengzhou, bought pork at a pork stall. He lamented: "I bought this meat for 40 yuan a catty. Now that pork is so expensive, I can only buy less. "