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Abstract
Consumer preferences for meat may be changing, If so, market clearing retail prices will be higher or lower than If no such changes occurred It Will be several year,s before
statistical analysts have enough price-quantity observations to determine whether
these alleged shifts m preference for meat products began m the eighties This article
reports the Simulated Impacts on the livestock and crops sectors of several combinations
of assumed shifts in consumer preference for beef, pork, and frying chickens
over a lO-year period