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More than a quarter of all meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China to 1 35 billion people hungry for more in 1978, China's meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third of the US consumption of 24 million tons of the country, but in 1992, China surpassed the United States is more than twice the US, the world's leading meat consumption and has not looked back since now the annual consumption of meat in China 71 million tons with US meat consumption falls and China's consumption continues to rise, the trajectories of the two countries determine the shape of agriculture around the world.
Pork is the meat of choice in China, accounting for nearly three quarters of its meat consumption in half some 476 million hogs world of them live in China This meat is so vital to the Chinese diet that in 2007, the government, hoping to cushion against the price spikes, created a strategic reserve of pork although relatively small to accompany its typical grain stocks and oil Much is adorned a Chinese banquet table with part of the soft sticky braised pork belly, touted as the favorite of Chairman Mao flat with his pork consumption is expected to reach 52 million tons in 2012, China is far ahead of the 8 million tonnes consumed in the United States, where the chicken and beef are more popular statement See.
On a per person basis, Americans eat more pork than the Chinese until 1997, when the lines crossed and China have pushed ahead over the past five years, per capita consumption of pork in the US dropped an average of 2 percent per year, while in China grew by more than 3 percent per year, despite rising prices now Chinese each eat an average of 84 pounds 38 kilograms of pork meat a year, while Americans 59 pounds on average.
Traditionally, China's pigs were bred in small numbers by households feed the leftover waste and table crops like many kitchens today have a lot of garbage American, Chinese kitchens had a pig Indeed , mandarin Chinese written character for the house is a pig under one roof, meaning longtime animal national importance but now requests incremented, a company richer and more urbanized took more pigs in the backyard and specialized livestock farms, where they are fed grain and soybeans.
Poultry production in China virtually nonexistent before 1978 also becomes more industrialized While chicken flocks in the United States began to multiply rapidly after World War II, the herds in China began to expand some 20 years later increased twice as fast the Chinese chicken consumption is expected to exceed 13 million tonnes in 2012, marking the first time that more chicken will be consumed in China than in the US yet, on average, Americans eat four times chicken per person.
For beef, Chinese consumption of 6 million tonnes from 11 million tonnes in the US Americans with their stereotypical burgers and steaks, each eat an average of 79 pounds of beef per year, almost nine times more than the average Chinese beef production has not taken off as fast in China than other meats were partly due to its higher cost and competing claims on grazing lands.
The other main reason that beef is not become as popular in China as livestock in feedlots gobble cereals about 7 pounds for each pound of weight gain for hogs, feed ratio is 3 to 1, and for chickens, it is 2 to 1 with a fifth of the world population and the supply of land and limited water, China has to rely heavily on the most effective forms of animal protein This led to huge production of farmed fish from 37 million tons in China, representing over 60 percent of the world total for comparison, US production is aquaculture least half a million tons in ponds farmed fish, particularly herbivorous species like carp, which are very popular in China, yet require less food than chickens do.
Although rice is an essential part of many a Chinese meal, the largest of China grain harvest is actually corn, with 192 million tonnes harvested in 2011. Corn is so important because it dominates the food rations for livestock, poultry and fish the 140 million tons of rice harvest in much of the southern part of the country, and most of the wheat 118 million tonnes of northern cultures are consumed directly by people or cooked in noodles, buns, dumplings and other foods.
In total, China harvesting the largest country grain harvest in history in 2011 a third of this crop will feed the animals to meet the growing demand for meat, milk, eggs and fish livestock Since the reforms of the agricultural policy of 1978, China's feed use rose more than nine times in 2010, China replaced the US as world number one user of feed grains.
With the grain, the other component in the typical animal rations is soybeans in China surpassed the United States in the amount of soybean meal in animal feed in 2008, but he could not do without using the outside world in 1995, China produced some 14 million tons of soybeans and also consumed 14 million tons by 2011. China still produces 14 million tons of soybeans, but it consumes 70 million tonnes .
Now, over 60 percent of world soybean exports, almost all of the United States, Brazil and Argentina, to go to China China incredible appetite for meat has changed the landscape of the western hemisphere, where soybeans planted lands now exceeds what the wheat or corn rainforest and savannah have been cleared for a vast soy monocultures.
The Chinese government had to look overseas to meet burgeoning demand for soybeans because of its policy of keeping the grain self-sufficiency When world grain prices peaked in 2007 08, many people actually China, saying that the growing meat consumption should have increased the demand enough to make the jump, but because China was almost entirely self-sufficient in cereals, other culprits were to be found the great American industry turned out to be the ethanol, which now consumes 30 percent of the US grain harvest.
Since then, however, China has begun to turn to the world grain market, importing a 7 million tonnes in 2011 Net If the Chinese meat consumption continues to increase rapidly, its food imports will soar over, taking international food prices with them already the US Grains Council said China could soon displace Japan as the top corn importer in the world.
Per person consumption of meat in China is now half the amount the United States for China to reach US levels of per capita with beef would take more than three quarters of the world's current production of beef to chicken, it would 80 percent of broiler chickens in the world and China is not the only country trying to move up the food chain Yet even as billions of people across the developing world with little meat in their diet are trying to eat more Americans are beginning to reduce total US meat consumption fell by 6 percent between 2007 and 2012 in the end, feed the world population of 7 billion and counting, it will meet somewhere in the middle.
Janet Larsen is the Director of Research for the Earth Policy Institute.
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