Chicken consumption on the increase in Australia
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) says Australians consume an average of 37 kilograms of chicken meat each per year, up from about six kilograms in the 1960s.
Chicken has overtaken beef as the favourite mealtime meat and forecasts suggest chicken consumption will keep rising. “The statistics coming out of ABARE suggest chicken meat consumption will go to 42 kilograms and we expect it to go beyond that,” said George Schlahtych, a group executive manager for Inghams Enterprises. In their processing plant in northern Adelaide, whole chickens are prepared for barbecue chook shops, marinated kebabs made for Woolworths and nuggets for KFC.
The $4 billion chicken industry in Australia is dominated by Inghams Enterprises and Baiada Poultry. Both have scores of growers in South Australia and have built processing plants on the outskirts of Adelaide (Baiada markets itself under the Steggles and Lilydale brands).
Source: ABC News
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