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As a consequence of the increase in the demand for proteins, above all in developed countries, meat consumption accounts for 60% of the protein diet. Over the last 20 years, meat production has increased by 127%, with the pig sector showing the way.

In Spain today, the meat production sector is one of the largest in the food industry, demonstrated by the fact that of the 77,810 million euros spent on food in Spain in 2005, 21.4% to meat and its derivatives, well ahead of sectors such as fish (13.3%) and milk products (10.7%). The average national consumption of meat and meat products in 2005 was greater than 65.8 kilos per person, an increase of 0.7% on 2004.

Pork accounts for nearly 60% of the total meat produced in our Spain. With a production that surpasses three million tons, Spain is the fourth largest producer of this type of meat in the world, behind China, the United States and Germany.