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South Africa’s consumer food price inflation slowed to 3.9% in July 2024, from 4.1% in the previous month. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Consumer food price inflation at lowest level since January 2020

While we could see food price inflation remaining relatively softer in the coming months, there are some possible upside price risks on bread and cereals and meat.

The broad moderation in grain prices underscores improved global supplies in the 2023-24 season. Photo: Martin Schutt/dpa

Global grain production good, but Southern Africa’s white maize crop hit by drought

South Africa imports all its rice and half its wheat so the exchange rate is a factor to watch

Raw deal: Beef tartare is on many fine-dining menus. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Restaurant craze red in tooth and claw

For fans of beef tartare and its variants, the defiantly voguish feast is a (very) rare thrill …

Meat consumption is relatively high in South Africa. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Meat-eating South Africa, is it time to slow down?

Meat consumption is relatively high in South Africa

Annual consumer inflation was unchanged at 3.2% in February at 3.2%, with increases registered in housing and utilities, food and alcoholic beverages and restaurants and accommodation offset by decreases in the services sector, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
 (Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

South African consumer food price inflation could average just above 6.0%

The outlook on food products prices will remain mixed, despite the recent broad increase in products prices.

Small-scale farming: A woman sells live chickens at a Polish market place.

In defence of chicken soup

What happens when cultural traditions conflict with the ethical imperative to give up meat?

Pros and cons: Soya beans provide protein but mass production causes deforestation. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

The good, the bad and the vegan

There’s a global push for people to become vegans, or at least eat less meat, to reduce their carbon footprint

Taste of things to come: The Beyond Burger at a café in Greenside, Johannesburg, looks and tastes like meat, but is made of plants. The manufacturer, Beyond Meat, listed on the Nadsaq earlier this month. (Oupa Nkosi)

Beast-free burgers are on a roll

Pioneering food firms are winning over fast food fans with meat alternatives – and even the beefy SA market is starting to bite

Perhaps meat-free Monday to Friday isn’t as pointless as it sounds. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Cutting out meat and dairy and slashes your carbon footprint

New research from the University of Oxford says there’s little point in doing all the good things if you continue to consume dairy and meat products

An artist’s rendering of Australopithecus afarensis. Lucy ate meat and plants 3.2-million years ago. (Dave Einsel/Getty Images/AFP)

Putting meat on Homo’s menu

We have been omnivores probably since the time of Lucy, our closest ancestor

An influential argument to justify meat eating is that humans are more superior beings to animals based on their cognitive abilities.

Can you rationalise your pound of flesh?

Dr Motsamai Molefe asks why we rationalise consuming animal flesh.

Stock gets a makeover

Forget stone soup: the latest craze to hit the Big Apple is bone broth – and it’s healthy, to boot.

How meat hops through SA hoops

Exotic meat imports are above board — it’s at the processing stage that problems creep in.

Gordhan’s budget speech

Weekend 101: No news is ba-a-a-ad news

Gordhan’s budget speech, the meat scandal arrives on SA shores and the new goat viral videos hits the internet. Watch Weekend 101 to stay in the know.

Drug-resistant bacteria contaminates 25% of US meat

A sampling of meat in five US cities has shown a type of drug-resistant bacteria is contained in about one quarter of beef, chicken, pork and turkey.

Eat less meat and save the planet

People should have one meat-free day a week to help tackle climate change, says the world’s leading authority on global warming.