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There is an increasing interest on food production that is more environmentally friendly. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution of purchases of meats (i.e., beef, lamb, pork and poultry) focusing on the organic category and using a unique dataset that allowed us to construct time series data by meat and by income group. This is interesting because of the continue reporting of an increase in the sales of organic products, particularly during the lockdown due to the pandemic, without mentioning anything about the evolution of quantities. Price and quantity indices were constructed for all the meats and they were subject to a trend analysis, which included seasonal components and a dummy variable for the period since March 2020 to test whether the first lockdown period had any effect on the purchases of organic meats. The preliminary results show a negative trend on the quantity demanded for organic beef and also a negative effect for the Covid-19 lockdown. The effect on the other meats (trend or Covid-19) is minimal of inexistent.

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