For the first time more females than males were slaughtered in a quarter

In the second quarter of 2025, 10.46 million cattle were slaughtered, representing an increase of 3.9% compared to the second quarter of 2024 and a rise of 5.5% against the immediately preceding quarter, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) when releasing disaggregated production data of the main animal proteins in the second quarter of the year. This was a record quarterly volume for cattle slaughter in Brazil.