Meat in a database

Organic meat is more expensive than non-organic meat. But does it taste better too? Wageningen researcher Hans Spoolder wants to answer this question in the mEATquality project. For this European project, data is being collected in different countries. A data warehouse will be set up, where all the data can be collected. "It is essential that everyone measures the same thing and submits data in the same way." "People who eat organic products say they taste better," says Hans Spoolder of Wageningen Livestock Research. "But do they? And if so, why?" For the four-year European research project mEATquality, Spoolder will investigate whether pork and chicken meat from extensive livestock farming tastes better than meat coming from intensive husbandry. The researchers will visit farms in Denmark, Germany, Poland, Spain and Italy, looking at animal welfare, the animal breeds and the type of food they are given.