date:Jun 04, 2013
become the world's largest consumer of pork as its prosperous citizens embrace expensive protein, despite a history of grain consumption. China, according to the Earth Policy Institute think tank, imports about 400,000 metric tons of pork annually, compared with a global pork trade of almost 7 million metric tons.
Steve Meyer, a meat-industry economist with Paragon Economics Inc in Des Moines, Iowa, told the Wall Street Journal that China just can't meet the demand for pork. There's not enough