Do people in your country eat more pork or beef?

[Tooting Carmen]

Interesting that according to objectivelists the Argentine diet is the 5th closest to Australian, probably largely because of the heavy beef consumption in both. (both are also at a similar latitude)

Well it was the rise of refigeration that enabled the British in the early 20th century to increasingly import beef from Australia rather than Argentina, and that is part of the explanation for the former's rise and the latter's concurrent decline.

[luc2112]

I assumed most Westerners eat beef because Americans and Britons eat a lot of beef, less pork and more mutton than us, but apparently most Europeans also prefer pork over beef and don't eat much mutton.

It's not preference, but what was available. European immigrant food here from the south of Brazil
Chicken, eggs, pork, ducks (Germans). Pork is made into sausages to preserve



Pork fat was also used as a preservative.



Cattle were only for milk and cheese (conserving milk) We are talking about a time without a refrigerator.

The remainder is wheat, wine, potatoes and maize later introduced in some parts of Europe after discovery of America (US only after the 1920s crisis and drought)

Cattle meat was introduced by the Spanish here in the southern cone. Argentina, Uruguay and the extreme south of Brazil. There were many plains with pasture and few people, cattle for meat need a lot of space and eat a lot. Beef has become common in Argentina, Uruguay and southern/southeastern Brazil. Other Latin American regions will consume chicken, pork and fish if available in the region.

Raising cattle for meat has also been introduced in the southern US, Australia and New Zealand.

[Sebastianus Rex]

In Hungary:

Pork: 29,3 kg
Beef: 3 kg
Lamb: 0,1 kg
Chicken: 30 kg

https://sertesinfo.aki.gov.hu/publik...rorsz%C3%A1gon

So chicken is the most popular, followed by pork.

Pork and poultry are tied : around 42-43kg per capita p/year;
Beef around 20-21kg
Fish around 60kg

Those Hungarian stats don't seem realistic unless there's a large proportion of vegans/vegeterians ( which I don't believe it's the case in Hungary), just compare with the ones I posted about Portugal per capita consumption p/year.

For example, I easily eat more than 3kg of beef per month let alone for the whole year.

[tk'es]

mostly sheep and chicken(fish is included, too), after slaughtering and butchering them with bare hands in my own ground.. but in case of emergency usually buy the fresh flesh in a local open market

[Sebastianus Rex]

mostly sheep and chicken(fish is included, too), after slaughtering and butchering them with bare hands in my own ground.. but in case of emergency usually buy the fresh flesh in a local open market

Primal! You're up there in the food chain, togheter with the Liver King!

[Victor]

mostly sheep and chicken(fish is included, too), after slaughtering and butchering them with bare hands in my own ground.. but in case of emergency usually buy the fresh flesh in a local open market

Respect, my father used to be a butcher for like 7 years before promoting further in Soviet trading system, but it was a gold mine job He knows everything about meat.

[tk'es]

Primal! You're up there in the food chain, togheter with the Liver King!

Respect, my father used to be a butcher for like 7 years before promoting further in Soviet trading system, but it was a gold mine job He knows everything about meat.

there's nothing better in ordinary life than eating a fresh meat, drinking a fresh milk, and having a garden full of fresh fruits, vegetables and other species of plants..

[black hole]

I would never be able to slaughter an animal with a knife ever in my life. I admit and I do not shy that I am a snowflake and I cannot watch the scene of slaughter. Such people must have a totally different characteristic, extremely confidence and solid spirit.

On topic. Sometimes pork or fish.

[luc2112]

Well it was the rise of refigeration that enabled the British in the early 20th century to increasingly import beef from Australia rather than Argentina, and that is part of the explanation for the former's rise and the latter's concurrent decline.

The biggest exporter of cattle meat is currently Brazil, exporting to Europe (increasingly with restrictions). Cattle from Brazil are smaller and a little muscular, Argentine cattle are larger with better quality tender meat. UK must buy beef and pork from US which is an exporter. Australia and NZ export to Asia.
Brazil also exports tons of soybean meal to China, which has the largest pork production in the world.

[Varda]

In Krajina too. In mountain areas as Krajina and Bosnia people were shephards, and lamb meat is popular.

I heard from my parents and grandpa that lamb meat is better and better as you go in the areas with stronger Med influence in climate and with more scarce vegetation. They said in our Knin area lamb meat is by far better than in Lika and Bosnia, but in Drniš is better than in Knin. In Lika and Bosnia lambs graze thick green grass, and tendency is that such grass makes them fat. In Dalmatia lambs eat stunted Med grass of which are less fat and their meat is tastier. In Serbia the best lamb meat is probably from Pirot area.

But we got used to customs in Serbia, especially here in the plains of Vojvodina where Krajina Serbs are concentrated, and where pork is No. 1.
Also, lamb is more expensive than pork.

Between Belgrade and Novi Sad there are tons of pečenjare where lambs and pigs are roasted and whose owners are mostly Krajina Serbs. Those place were very few before 1990s and arrival of Krajišnici.

Bosnian Serbs eat a lot of lamb meat.

Dalmatian Serbs as tradition have roasting lambs on a wooden ražanj, no one roasted pork until 1980s when some started with it because they adopted that from their cousins who lived in Serbia. Pigs were traditionally kept only for drying meat - pršut, panceta (bacon).
I can't speak exactly for other Krajina Serbs, but i suppose those from mountain areas as tradition had lamb and those from plains pork meat. Interesting, i heard from one guy from Montenegro that lamb on ražanj is not tradition in Montenegro, but recent practice. Lamb meat in Montenegro is traditionally preparing in a different way.