Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak on record spread to new farms and now affects more than 20% of the country’s 47 prefectures, with officials ordering cullings after more poultry deaths. Read more here
Read More Bird Flu outbreak in JapanData below (from 2015-2020) clearly indicates that importation does not benefit the local consumers and is in fact more detrimental to local farmers. Data sources include UBRA, Bureau of Animal Industry, National Meat Inspection Service, and Philippine Statistics Authority.
Read More 2015-2020 Data on Farm gate price, wholesale, retail prices of chicken and Chicken importationsBAI meat importation report Aug 17-23, 2020
Read More BAI report on meat importation data from Aug 17-23 based on country of originWill the ban on MDM imports from Brazil cause a shortage, the data from BAI shows it will not. There are other sources of MDM aside from Brazil.
Read More An Open Letter to the Hon. Ramon Lopez, Secretary, DTI