Tridge summary
The United Nations anticipates that by 2050, with an increasing global population and rising per capita income, especially in Asian countries like China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, there will be a significant shift in dietary habits towards greater meat consumption. This trend is expected to transform the global agro-food market, although it will also lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly methane, from the expansion of livestock farming. In response, the consumption of alternative plant-based 'meats' is on the rise, particularly in Asia, with South Korea introducing a new sustainable protein source – a hybrid rice-beef product – that emits less than 10% of the CO2 of regular meat and costs less. This development could help address the food crisis resulting from increased meat consumption and climate change, offering a potential solution for food security in a challenging but prosperous future.
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Original content
Despite alternative meats, nothing can stop the extreme consumption of meat in the world. The United Nations estimates that the world population will exceed 10 billion inhabitants in 2050, and that, led by emerging countries, and first of all Asian countries (China/India/Indonesia/Vietnam), per capita income will triple in this period; and this will imply by definition a profound transformation of its dietary structure, with an extraordinary consumption of meat proteins. China's experience is conclusive in this regard: the opening to capitalism and the shift to globalization carried out from 1978 by Deng Xiaoping unleashed a growth of 9.9% per year for more than 40 years - the longest period at the highest rate in the history of capitalism - with a per capita income of its population of 1.4 billion inhabitants that doubled every 8/10 years; And this phenomenal boom in prosperity produced a massive shift of its population to the consumption of meat proteins, especially pork, ...
Source: Eltelegrafo
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