date:Mar 27, 2014
Americans eat 235 pounds of meat annually. Thats the equivalent of roughly 470 big hamburgers a year more than a burger a day.
The Chinese on the other hand consume a mere 120 pounds of meat per person each year. Yet with 1.35 billion people in the country, China now consumes double the amount of meat we do in the U.S..
If everyone on the planet were to eat like Americans, we have the capacity to feed 2 billion people. says Janet Larsen, the Director of Research at the Earth Policy Institut