UNIFIED MEAT INDUSTRY
“A more united meat industry would be good for the country – and for the continent.”
According to Dr Maretha van der Merwe, Deputy Director: Municipal Health Services, one of the key focal points of any game-meat scheme is to ensure that it can play a role in producing enough protein to feed our people – currently, almost half of the red meat we consume in South Africa is imported (in 2016 the figure was 48%). When it comes to poultry, the current figure is even higher – around 68% after SA was forced to accept products from the US. “Other countries tend to dump the meat they do not accept for their own markets due to quality issues, on our markets,” she says. “When you buy frozen meat in bulk, around 80% of that is imported, but this is not always declared – or you might find
