Grenada Beef

Grenada Beef

Facts about beef in Grenada

  • The Grenadian leader said that the ever-increasing cost of food- especially meat- on the international market makes investment in the sector important to Grenada’s food security and the reduction of the island’s food import bill
  • Minister Bhola boasted that we are building ‘a modern edge cutting Abattoir.’ “No longer will the butchers be using cutlass- saws- choppers and whatever- we will have proper equipment to give you proper cuts- so that when you get a piece of meat it will be fresh- it would be good-” Bhola said.
  • “No longer will you have meat hanging outside from Friday morning to Saturday morning. It will be hanging in a Cold Storage room and you will have the various cuts when you come to purchase-” Bhola said-
  • Grenadians has 97 per capita meat consumption as of 2002.
  • At 2009- Grenada’s meat consumption raised to 144.2 kg/person/year.