Mexico's Changing Pork Sector: Balancing Domestic and International Market Demand

Batres-Marquez, S. Patricia, Roxanne Clemens and Helen H. Jensen ()

Staff General Research Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Competition from imported pork and the desire to export pork have influenced Mexican government policies and have resulted in improved pork quality and safety. At the same time, a two-tiered system is emerging that offers wealthier domestic consumers the opportunity to purchase pork produced under safer conditions and limits poorer consumers to pork produced with few food safety controls.

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Date: 2008-04-13

Published in Choices, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 7-12.

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