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Pork Food In The Philippines Case Study

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Politically, there are certain laws about the production, distribution and delivery of pork products. One of these laws is about food safety Sec. 15 of Article II in the 1987 Philippines Constitution states that “to protect and promote the right of health of the people”, where the Meat Inspection Code comes in or also known as RA 9296. RA 9296 strengthens the inspection of processed or non-processed meat in the country it is mostly about double-dead meat or also known as hot meat or botcha. However, these two has their differences, double dead meat are those pigs which have already died from a disease and was still killed to sell in the market. Hot meats or botcha can be fit for human consumption but did not go through necessary sanitary tests. With these regulations, the subsectors of the government strictly inspects pork meat before giving into consumer (The LawPhil Project).
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It accounts 40% of the total manufacturing output and contributes 20% of the country’s total GDP annually. The total demand for pork last 2009 almost reached 1.357 million metric tons where in 97% was produced locally and the remaining 3% are imported (The Meat Site,2010).
The swine or hog industry is the second largest contributor to the country’s agriculture next to rice according to 2010’s data. Casually in the same year, the most cause of decline in stocks was caused by a number of losses incurred by farms mainly in Luzon due to pig diseases. The total swine production in 2013 was 2,012.17 thousand metric tons live weight. It grew by 1.95% from last year's gross production of 1,973.62 thousand metric tons. Agriculture was up by 1.81% in the first six months of 2014.Output gains were also noted in the livestock and also in the poultry subsectors (Bureau of Agricultural Statistics).

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