© The Author(s) 2015. Published by Science and Education Publishing. Table 3. Meat prices of different months in China mainland (Chinese Yuan / kg) Months January February March April May June July August September October November December SE Beef 52.9a 53.3a 53.2a 53.4ab 53.8ab 54.3ab 54.6ab 55.0ab 55.7ab 56.4ab 57.1 ab 58.2b .934 Pig meat 26.0a 24.9ab 23.3abc 21.7c 22.2bc 22.5bc 22.8bc 23.8abc 24.1abc 24.0abc 24.3abc .61 Sheep meat 59.1 59.4 58.9 59.0 59.3 59.6 59.9 60.1 60.6 61.0 61.4 62.2 0.79 Note: Prices are means from 2012 to 2014 from the China year book of agricultural price survey. The means with different letters are significantly different at the 0.05 level (P < 0.05). Means without letter means are not significantly different (P > 0.05). The Multiple Comparisons used Tukey HSD. Yanwei Mao et al. Consumption Patterns and Consumer Attitudes to Beef and Sheep Meat in China. American Journal of Food and Nutrition, 2016, Vol. 4, No. 2, 30-39. doi:10.12691/ajfn-4-2-1 © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Science and Education Publishing.