The Environmental Impact of the Pork Industry is too Large to Ignore
May 21, 2014
By Tom Levitt, Managing Editor of chinadialogue. This article was first published by chinadialogue.
Meat invariably means pig in China, with pork accounting for 65% of the meat consumed in the country.
And after last year s high-profile takeover of the U.S. pig giant Smithfield by Shuanghui International, since renamed the WH Group, the largest pig producer in the world is now in China.
Although the overall resource footprint of pork is, on average, lower than beef, it is still considerably higher than vegetarian alternatives.
What is more, the long list of negative environmental impacts is reaching crisis point. For example, pig production accounts for 42% of nitrogen and 90% of phosphorus flows into the South China Sea.
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