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View all search resultsWe love meat so much that we slaughtered almost 400,000 heads of cattle during the celebration of Idul Adha, the Islamic Day of Sacrifice, last year. That said, Indonesian meat consumption is relatively low at 11.6 kilogram per capita, which compares to 25.8 kg in neighboring Thailand and 52.3 kg in Malaysia.
The government is expediting imports of buffalo meat, garlic and sugar to stabilize prices in preparation for a surge in demand during this year’s Ramadan festivities that will start in late April amid the coronavirus outbreak, officials say.
The increase was mainly a result of breeders' decision to raise the price of broiler chickens nationwide in February, according to the Indonesian People's Poultry Association's (Pinsar) Central Java branch.
A new study on meat consumption has found that people who eat red and processed meat have higher risks of heart disease and early death - contradicting recent research that suggested cutting out meat has few health benefits.
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