B+LNZ AgInnovation Conference 2019 Presentations

Red meat markets and COVID-19: An update from Blake Holgate, Rabobank

Blake Holgate is an animal proteins and sustainability analyst with the RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness team. He joined B+LNZ’s ‘Hot Topic’ webinar series to provide a market outlook and COVID-19 update for the red meat sector, and an overview of what developments to watch in the weeks and months to come.

Red Meat: facing the challenges of the post-truth era by Frederic Leroy

Speaking at the Red Meat Sector Conference in Christchurch, Professor Frédéric Leroy, who has a background in microbiology, food science and human and animal well-being at Vrije University Brussels, told delegates that meat has become a "pharmakon", meaning that it is all at the same time a remedy, a poison and a scapegoat. Professor Leroy said the industry as a whole had a responsibility to ''change the narrative''.