The worldwide hunger for meat is growing
The global demand for meat has been growing for decades, and all this is happening quietly, despite the spread of veganism and the EU's push against farming, for the limitation of CO2 emissions.
As Martin Armstrong of Statista reports, data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) show that world meat production has increased fivefold since the 1960s.
By 2023, FAO projects that the amount of meat produced will be around 364 million tonnes. According to FAO, the Covid-19 crisis has caused many disruptions in production and supply chains. However, this has not led to a decline in global production: Even during the pandemic, the trend of increasing production volume has continued, as this infographic illustrates.
In recent years, a change in global agriculture could be observed.
Meat production costs have become lower due to increased production of animal feed such as soy or corn, thus increasing the supply of meat in many countries, where a larger section of the population can afford access to animal protein .
Especially in populous Asian countries, the demand for different types of meat has increased. Asia is the largest meat production market, with emphasis on pork and poultry, which are also the two most produced types of meat in the world, ahead of beef and sheep meat, which includes sheep and lambs. China considers meat so important that it has a "Strategic Reserve" of pork, just like other countries have oil.
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/cresce-la-fame-mondiale-di-carne/ on Tue, 04 Jul 2023 08:00:29 +0000.