With Denmark and some other European countries eying a tax on saturated fats, there are fears that profits for dairymen and swine farmers could be hurt
by NORMAN DUNN
No one can accuse agriculture of not following the ups and downs of market demands for its products. Take hogs, for example. Quite apart from increased fat trimming on slaughter lines, the swine sector has been increasing carcass lean meat content for years now. In the last seven years alone, the average lean meat proportion of carcasses in the U.K. pork industry has risen from 58.5 to almost 62 per cent.