date:Mar 18, 2014
rate of inflation, since the recession in 2008.
Wages have not risen to the same extent and, as such, many consumers can no longer afford to eat meat on an everyday basis.
Many more consumers are being forced to trade down from prime cuts of fresh meat to processed and lesser-quality products, such as minced beef.
In a Key Note commissioned survey, conducted in January 2014, 21.5 per cent of meat-eating respondents claimed to be reducing their meat consumption to save money because of the pr