China and Industrial Animal Agriculture: Prospects and Defects

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This backgrounder is based on a longer report by Mia MacDonald and Sangamithra Lyer published by Brighter Green.
Read that report here:
http://brightergreen.org/files/brightergreen_china_print.pdf

Much has been made about rising meat consumption in China as one of the causes of the world food crisis. However, little mention is made of the way China is now producing meat, and the direct involvement of U.S. and Brazilian agribusinesses that profit from industrial meat production. The spread of the corporate-driven industrial agrofoods model to China may have a much larger and negative social and environmental impacts on China—and the rest of the world—than the increase in Chinese meat
consumption in and of itself… [editor’s note].