21.   Barnard said growing incomes across Southeast Asia, combined with expanding populations had led to rapidly increasing beef consumption levels in the region.

22.   Beef consumption in Italy has dropped, dragging down the wholesale price for cattle.

23.   Beef consumption dropped all over Europe.

24.   Beef consumption here has always trailed that of Western European countries, and rural Slovaks traditionally have kept their own pigs and chickens.

25.   Beef consumption has declined, and the checkoff should be ended, they say.

26.   Cattle producers are in the best shape, in part because of rising beef consumption and the low grain prices, which result in lower feed costs.

27.   Chicken prices, on the other hand, fell reflecting slackened demand as beef consumption picked up, he said.

28.   He predicted the jittery economy and rising fuel prices would influence beef consumption more than the outbreaks of animal disease overseas.

29.   In addition, it called for an EU campaign to promote beef consumption and sharpened monitoring methods to detect livestock disease.

30.   Japan has largely averted the mad cow disease scare that curtailed beef consumption in other parts of the world.