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Domestic pork demand slump somewhat misleading
The new senior vice president of market growth for the National Pork Board suggests the dip in domestic pork demand is somewhat misleading.
David Newman is a pork producer from Missouri and says in his new role he’ll work with NPB’s market development team domestically and internationally.
“It’s a big ship right now whenever we think about the challenges for producers and we think about demand. That’s something that is at the top of everybody’s mind.”
He tells Brownfield while exports have been strong, domestic demand is failing to keep up with the past two years.
“But that’s really because last year and the year before when we saw this post-COVID rage spending some people talk about, the demand (for everything) was so incredibly high. The whole supply chain has been disrupted.”
He says U.S. pork demand is pacing near pre-pandemic levels and positioned to grow.
Brownfield interviewed Newman at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines Thursday.
While I like fresh pork very much and it used to be about 15% of my monthly food expenditure, I will no longer purchase any fresh pork. This is because I found out that they are injecting pigs with mRNA. I had noticed that the fresh pork that I used to buy which was tender and flavorful has become tougher and lacked the real pork flavor I liked. I attribute this change in the fresh pork product to the mRNA injections which increase fibrin production in the meat. I noticed this change gradually occured over the last five years which is the same time period that they have been using mRNA. I was already concerned about the feed containing GMO’s and maybe that has something to do with it also, but the fresh pork today just aint what it used to be. Until the pork industry stops the mRNA and GMO nonsense, I will never eat commercial pork again. I can and will raise my iwn pigs and tgey will be mRNA and GMO FREE. This is yet another case where bureaucrats think they can compensate for an inferiior product by using marketing and sales techniques. In the end, they will loose as more and more people become aware of the change in the once delicious and nutritious fresh pork in the market. No amount of marketing will transform fresh pork back to the quality product it once was.; only decent feed and care practices that do not use experimental technology can make poek right again. I would not mind paying the little extra per pound that it would cost to produce REAL fresh pork. This is probably why there is a decline in the domestic fresh pork market and fixing the nRNA and GMO feed problems is the only real long term solution.