Tackling the future challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry - vTI

RAHMANN G & GODINHO D (Ed.) (2012): Tackling the Future Challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry.
Proceedings of the 2 nd OAHC, Hamburg/Trenthorst, Germany, Sep 12-14, 2012
less than 20 and 11.8 percentage unit for the age group 25 and over respectively, totaling not less
than 19.4 percentage units for each PC as compared to PAHU. Germany’s meat consumption for
the year 2007 on PC was 84.2 kg., (EC 2008). However further graphic analysis made by using
BMR kcal requirement values for the age groups showed faulty and deleterious assessments (7.6
age 25 =19.4 percentage unit), so PAHU meat consumption value calculated to be
100.5 kg /PAHU.
Table 1. Calculated Conversion Factors of the Age Groups
Age
Groups
Calculated
average BME 3
requirements
kcal / day
PAHU
Male
Conversion
Female
Factors
0-4 438.9 0.262 0.317 0.287
5-9 781.4 0.461 0.572 0.511
10-14 1147.4 0.672 0.848 0.751
15-19 1492.5 0.974 1.091 0.976
20-24 1 1528.7 1.000 1.000 1.000
25-34 1494.5 0.979 0.979 0.980
35-44 1452.0 0.950 0.950 0.950
45-54 1406.3 0.920 0.920 0.920
55-59 1354.2 0.870 0.906 0.886
60-64 1354.2 0.870 0.905 0.886
65-74 1222.6 0.800 0.800 0.800
75+ 1095.3 0.719 0.713 0.716
1 Standard PAHU (Age 20-24) for male and female BMR requirements are 1694 and 1363.36 kcal/d respectively, averaging
1528.7 kcal/d. 2 PAHU Calculation = Population of the age group x Age group’s conversion factor. 3 BMR is the
minimum energy cost of body process, that represents the excess of endothermic over exothermic reactions in the body.
Discussion
The EU currently has to cope with demographic decline, low natural growth and the ageing of its
population. Gossard (2003) indicated that social structure influences on meat consumption. During
the last decades, scientists have indicated that demography indeed matters but the implicit assumption
of a constant age distribution of the population must be abandoned. Actions for stimulating
organic agriculture and livestock production and controlling meat market volatility in both developed
and developing countries are essential, but not sufficient. Evaluations should not be made
on error bound PC basis to achieve food security in the increasingly complex EU and the international
economic context because “Errors can not be corrected with the same error source.” Building
a mutually accepted sustainable and resilient evaluation thus using suggested PAHU as policy innovation
may be essential for achieving and even eliminating hunger.
Suggestions to tackle the future challenges of organic animal husbandry
EU27 must be open to rethinking on how accurately the current methods (PC, Adult Equivalent,
Consumer Unit, equivoque estimates) represent the true gender differences, the age structure of the
real consuming population and must be open to monitoring. The economic crisis of EU started in
2008 and its economic growth evaluated on PC does not measure the quality of life and prosperity
of population especially when the family and the household food (meat) consumption values are
analyzed.
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