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Ravenous for Meat, China Faces a Climate Quandary
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 274" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://undark.org/article/china-meat-consumption-climate-change/" target="_blank"><strong>Ravenous for Meat, China Faces a Climate Quandary - Undark</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>On the whole, the country consumes 28 percent of the world’s meat — twice as much as the United States. And that figure is only set to increase.</em></p><p></p><p>At the center of the table in a modest, high-rise apartment in the teeming city of Shenzhen, China, a simmering pot of soup stock was surrounded by large platters featuring mushrooms, different kinds of thinly shaved meat, lettuce, potato, cauliflower, eggs, and shrimp. Folding his hands together, Jian Zhang, a onetime rural farmer who now works as an employee for a small consulting firm in the city, asked his fellow diners to give thanks for the meal — the likes of which he could have only dreamed of when growing up in a remote village in the Jiangxi province.</p><p></p><p>The reason was simple: His family was so poor that they had to make do with barely sufficient food supplies. “I often went hungry when I was a kid,” said Zhang, his voice betraying the painful memories of a hard childhood. Until the late 1980s, when the state-imposed food rationing system was phased out from people’s daily lives, food supplies were in serious shortage across China. Coupons for buying basic foodstuffs like grain, flour, rice, oil, and eggs were issued based on monthly rations.</p><p></p><p>Meat, recalled Zhang as he dipped a piece of beef into the bubbly broth, was a rare luxury that his family could afford “two or three times a month.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 274, member: 1"] [URL='https://undark.org/article/china-meat-consumption-climate-change/'][B]Ravenous for Meat, China Faces a Climate Quandary - Undark[/B][/URL] [I]On the whole, the country consumes 28 percent of the world’s meat — twice as much as the United States. And that figure is only set to increase.[/I] At the center of the table in a modest, high-rise apartment in the teeming city of Shenzhen, China, a simmering pot of soup stock was surrounded by large platters featuring mushrooms, different kinds of thinly shaved meat, lettuce, potato, cauliflower, eggs, and shrimp. Folding his hands together, Jian Zhang, a onetime rural farmer who now works as an employee for a small consulting firm in the city, asked his fellow diners to give thanks for the meal — the likes of which he could have only dreamed of when growing up in a remote village in the Jiangxi province. The reason was simple: His family was so poor that they had to make do with barely sufficient food supplies. “I often went hungry when I was a kid,” said Zhang, his voice betraying the painful memories of a hard childhood. Until the late 1980s, when the state-imposed food rationing system was phased out from people’s daily lives, food supplies were in serious shortage across China. Coupons for buying basic foodstuffs like grain, flour, rice, oil, and eggs were issued based on monthly rations. Meat, recalled Zhang as he dipped a piece of beef into the bubbly broth, was a rare luxury that his family could afford “two or three times a month.” [/QUOTE]
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