Spain: consumption in general and meat in particular is reduced
While pasta and legumes suffer falls of 1.4% and 2.2% respectively, the consumption of meat and fish products has plummeted, with falls close to 15%. In the case of meat, sales have fallen on average by 12.4%.
All meat segments decreased, frozen meat lost 19.2% of the volume, processed meat did so by 8.6% and the type of fresh meat accumulated a decrease of 13.6%. Within the fresh meat segment, there was a decline for the purchase of sheep/goats (24.7%), while beef and rabbit meat exceeded a negative 15.0% variation. Fresh chicken and pork meats are the ones to withstand the decline with declines of 13.8% and 10.0% respectively.
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