The Looming Crisis: Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Avian Flu's Impact on South African Meat Prices

The looming crisis: Foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu's impact on South African meat prices

Meat prices set to surge amid SA supply crisis

Eskort CEO Arnold Prinsloo warns that South Africa’s meat industry is heading into a “perfect storm” that could drive prices out of reach for millions. Speaking to BusinessTech, he said that a combination of beef shortages, a ban on chicken imports from Brazil, and the collapse of a major poultry producer has put the country’s food security at serious risk. The warning comes after a confirmed outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at a Gauteng feedl…

Industry warns of meat price spike and hunger as SA faces supply crisis

South Africa’s meat supply is under pressure from a “triple whammy” of crises: bird flu in Brazil, a poultry producer’s collapse, and a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.