date:Aug 20, 2014
fell 16 per cent year-on-year during May.
Sheep meat accounted for just under three per cent of all meat sales volumes in Spain during the month compared with around 3.5 per cent in May 2013.
With sheep meat a relatively expensive protein, this level of consumption in volume terms required a higher proportion of the money spent on meat.
Indeed in May 2013, spending on sheep meat accounted for five per cent of spending on meat, slipping to 4.5 per cent a year later. In the first five months o