World meat trade healthy, wary about disease
Reuters
July 4, 2006

Animal diseases, especially bird flu, should cast the only shadow over healthy prospects until 2015 for the world livestock trade where demand will be fueled by developing countries, a study showed on Tuesday.

Despite warning of negative knock-on effects on the global meat trade from previous disease outbreaks, such as delays in lifting import bans, it forecast higher imports of beef, pigmeat and poultry from developed and developing countries up to 2015.

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