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Supermarket in Berlin. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 14In the coming months, Germans may face problems with the availability of meat products, Udo Hemmerling, deputy secretary general of the German Farmers Association, told Der Spiegel magazine. on food in the country appear almost daily.The German government urged Germans to eat less meatAccording to Hemmerling, a shortage in the foreseeable future may affect meat products. Thus, pork prices have been low for a long time, so pig production in Germany has declined, and although prices have risen again by now, feed prices have also risen sharply. As the association representative noted, now the farmer receives 1.95 euros per kilogram of pork, however , according to experts, its cost to cover expenses should be 2.50 euros, which makes it pointless to keep pigs. For this reason, farmers now keep fewer animals.» The problem is rather that consumers are used to having everything always available. For meat, this may change in the coming months. Of course, consumers can simply buy sausage instead of pork chops. But if it becomes it is known that chops are in short supply, and everyone will quickly fill the freezer, then this hype effect will arise again — and there will be even less goods,» Hemmerling warned. Earlier, German Minister of Agriculture Cem Ozdemir urged the Germans to eat less meat in order to fight Russia, which, according to him, he allegedly uses food supplies as a weapon. Western countries imposed sanctions against Russia because of a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. The new restrictions affected mainly the banking sector and the high-tech sector. Calls to abandon Russian energy sources have become louder. However, disruption of supply chains has led to economic problems in Europe and the US, primarily to higher prices for food and fuel. Britain «gloomy forecasts»