Press release No. 050 of 7 February 2022
WIESBADEN – Commercial slaughterhouses in Germany produced 7.6 million tonnes of meat in 2021, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decline of 2.4% on the preceding year. Meat production has decreased year on year since 2017. A total of 56.2 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses as well as 605.8 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were slaughtered in the slaughterhouses in 2021.
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