Global Antibiotic-free Meat Market – Industry Trends and Forecast to 2029

Antibiotic Free Meat Market Analysis and Size

In the last decade, the evolution of social media has played a significant role in raising awareness about the negative effects of traditional or conventional food and the benefits of antibiotic-free meat products. Aside from the shift in how antibiotic-free foods are perceived, consumers are increasingly emphasising the social aspects of antibiotic-free production, favouring small-scale agriculture in a clean environment over large farms.

Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the antibiotic-free meat market was valued at USD 148.67 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach the value of USD 211.42 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 4.50% during the forecast period of 2022-2029. In addition to the insights on market scenarios such as market value, growth rate, segmentation, geographical coverage, and major players, the market reports curated by the Data Bridge Market Research also include in-depth expert analysis, geographically represented company-wise production and capacity, network layouts of distributors and partners, detailed and updated price trend analysis and deficit analysis of supply chain and demand.

Antibiotic Free Meat Market Scope and Segmentation

Market Definition

Antibiotic-free meat is derived from livestock raised without the use of any antimicrobial and/or antibacterial substances administered to animals to prevent and treat pathogenic diseases. Farmers and meat processing industries commonly use antibiotics to promote rapid growth in animals, which leads to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals.

Global Antibiotic Free Meat Market Dynamics

Drivers

• Increasing customer knowledge and rising living standards

Growing awareness of the benefits of the antibiotic-free food and beverage market leads to increased market share growth. The antibiotic-free food and beverage market raises the standard of living by lowering health concerns, increasing customer knowledge of health-conscious customers, avoiding pesticides, chemical fertilisers, and synthetic chemicals, and avoiding genetically modified organisms. As a result, antibiotic-free meat products play an important role in health benefits, environmental friendliness, and animal welfare. It has nutritional advantages over a standard diet.

• Growing demand for clean label products

Consumers are paying more attention to what's in their food. Consumers around the world prefer clean-label food products, which is driving demand for antibiotic free meat market. In developing markets, a clean label allows a product to stand out from the crowd. Consumers are increasingly seeking nutritional meat products free of artificial colours, preservatives, flavours, sweeteners, and other potentially harmful ingredients. Clean labels can lead to premium and value-added products. Consumers prefer transparency in the entire process, from animal raising to products served on the table. Meat producers are focusing on transparency between consumers and manufacturers by providing all product information.

Opportunity

Consumers are gravitating toward the global organic meat market as they become more aware of the potential negative effects of using antibiotics and chemical additives in the production of processed meat. The rising consumer demand for organic meat has prompted suppliers to increase their organic meat supply. The easy availability of meat and rising consumer demand are propelling market growth.

Restraints

However, rising meat prices, among other factors, will pose a further challenge to the antibiotic-free meat market during the forecast period.

This antibiotic free meat market report provides details of new recent developments, trade regulations, import-export analysis, production analysis, value chain optimization, market share, impact of domestic and localized market players, analyses opportunities in terms of emerging revenue pockets, changes in market regulations, strategic market growth analysis, market size, category market growths, application niches and dominance, product approvals, product launches, geographic expansions, technological innovations in the market. To gain more info on the antibiotic free meat market contact Data Bridge Market Research for an Analyst Brief, our team will help you take an informed market decision to achieve market growth.

Impact and Current Market Scenario of Raw Material Shortage and Shipping Delays

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COVID-19 Impact on Antibiotic Free Meat Market

In 2020, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic had a massive impact on the antibiotic-free sector. Due to various governments' lockdowns and restrictions, Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the meat production, processing, distribution, and consumption phases of the global meat supply chain. Furthermore, physical separation rules and a lack of labour availability have impacted meat processing and packaging plants. The restricted transportation laws resulting from lockdowns significantly affected meat distribution. Limited meat production also had an impact on meat distribution and the supply chain.

Expected Impact of Economic Slowdown on the Pricing and Availability of Products

When economic activity slows, industries begin to suffer. The forecasted effects of the economic downturn on the pricing and accessibility of the products are taken into account in the market insight reports and intelligence services provided by DBMR. With this, our clients can typically keep one step ahead of their competitors, project their sales and revenue, and estimate their profit and loss expenditures.

Recent Development

• In 2022, key market players targeted consumers in both developed and developing countries through strategic developments such as expansion or acquisition. Tyson Foods, Inc., for example, acquired Tecumseh Poultry LLC in 2018 to diversify its organic chicken portfolio through the air-chilled Smart Chicken brand.
• In 2022, Farmer Focus, an organic chicken supplier, will open its new 78,000 square-foot state-of-the-art packaging facility in Harrisonburg, Virginia,. Over the next two years, the new facility will increase Farmer Focus' production capacity by up to 100 percent, to 650,000 birds weekly.
• In 2021, India's largest pork processing plant is set to open in Nazira, Upper Assam, with another unit in Sikkim targeting organic swine meat.

Global Antibiotic Free Meat Market Scope

The antibiotic free meat market is segmented on the basis of nature, product type and end-user. The growth amongst these segments will help you analyse meagre growth segments in the industries and provide the users with a valuable market overview and market insights to help them make strategic decisions for identifying core market applications.

Nature

• Fresh
• Frozen

Product Type

• Pork Antibiotic-Free Meat
• Chicken Antibiotic-Free Meat
• Beef Antibiotic-Free Meat
• Turkey Antibiotic-Free Meat

End user

• Direct
• Indirect

Antibiotic Free Meat Market Regional Analysis/Insights

The antibiotic free meat market is analysed and market size insights and trends are provided by country, nature, product type and end-user as referenced above.

The countries covered in the antibiotic free meat market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America.

Asia-Pacific currently dominates the antibiotic free meat market and will continue to do so during the forecast period due to rising urbanisation, westernisation, growth and expansion of the antibiotic free meat industry, changing lifestyle, and rising personal disposable income. Rising public awareness of the health benefits of antibiotic free meat products will create lucrative and remunerative market growth opportunities.

The country section of the report also provides individual market impacting factors and changes in market regulation that impact the current and future trends of the market. Data points like down-stream and upstream value chain analysis, technical trends and porter's five forces analysis, case studies are some of the pointers used to forecast the market scenario for individual countries. Also, the presence and availability of global brands and their challenges faced due to large or scarce competition from local and domestic brands, impact of domestic tariffs and trade routes are considered while providing forecast analysis of the country data.   

Competitive Landscape and Antibiotic Free Meat Market Share Analysis

The antibiotic free meat market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, global presence, production sites and facilities, production capacities, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies' focus related to antibiotic free meat market.

Some of the major players operating in the antibiotic free meat market are:

• Cargill Incorporated (U.S.)
• Tyson Foods, Inc. (U.S.)
• JBS S.A. (Brazil)
• Hormel Foods Corporation (U.S.)
• American Foods Group, LLC (U.S.)
• Koch Foods, Inc. (U.S.)
• Smithfield Foods, Inc. (U.S.)
• National Beef Packing Company, LLC (U.S.)
• Perdue Farms Inc. (U.S.)
• Allanasons Private Limited (India)
• Tecumseh Poultry LLC, Insider Inc., (U.S.)
• MEYER NATURAL FOODS (U.S.)
• Nikken Foods Co,.Ltd, (U.S.)

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