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Our featured foodstuff today on our Food Basket Barometer is polony. This Cinderella foodstuff is a feature of feeding schemes and school lunches, and is consistently the cheapest protein available, albeit high in salt and fat. When poultry becomes expensive, lower-income consumers buy less chicken and use polony to fill the gap.
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Following our theme this year of Transformation, we have compiled an Explainer that is an edited version of our AMIE Academy podcast.
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ChickenFacts is a portal concerned with facts and a variety of opinions and news curation across the poultry value chain. But there is a persistent misperception that refuses to go away, which feeds into protectionism and isolationism, and this is the alarmist refrain about poultry imports.
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Poultry imports are an easy scapegoat for the challenges facing the poultry industry and so statistics around poultry imports are often misrepresented deliberately in order to feed this misperception.
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ChickenFacts has repeatedly presented the facts to correct misperceptions. But as everyone knows, "a lie can run round the world before the truth gets its boots on".
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So, to assist media and consumers with real information about imports, we will publish a fact sheet with ongoing, updated, import statistics. The purpose of this is to present plain statistics with unambiguous factual context, so that people can check for themselves.
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Poultry Analysis 23 January 2024
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Another day, another alarming headline about poultry imports.
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Food Basket Barometer - Polony
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Polony is consistently the cheapest form of protein available in South Africa, but it also contains high levels of fat and salt.
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This Explainer is an edited version of the AMIE Transformation podcast, containing the main points of the interview
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