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Guardian: The scale of growth in China’s meat production over the past three decades is staggering.
Today, one-third of the world’s meat is produced in the country and half of all pigs live there. While per capita annual consumption may still be below the US and Europe – for now at least – China still managed to jump from 4kg to 61kg per person between 1961 and 2010.
Unlike the US though, it must produce this meat with a comparative scarcity of resources. Its water availability per capita is around 2,000......
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Intensive farming won’t solve meat problem
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 3rd, 2014
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