China now eats twice as much meat as the United States (article)

[tombgrt]

Relevant for some companies discussed here like LUK (National Beef) and FTP. These are huge issues.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9605048/China-now-eats-twice-as-much-meat-as-the-United-States.html

[Liberty]

Thanks for posting. That's something that I probably haven't written about enough in the FTP thread; increasing food prices should be good for DP prices because food crops (including those fed to animals, since little cattle now grazes as nature intended) compete for arable land with cotton.

 

So not only are billions of people now able to afford a few more clothes, but they're also eating more and higher on the food chain (ie. it takes many pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat), which should also be good for dissolving pulp.