Livestock Consumption Rises As Income Increases
Jan 22, 2016, 10:08 AM
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Global livestock production has increased substantially since the 1960s. Beef production has more than doubled, while over the same time chicken meat production has increased by a factor of nearly 10, made up of increases in both number of animals and productivity. Carcass weights have increased by about 30 per cent for both chicken and beef cattle from the early 1960s to the mid-2000s and by about 20 per cent for pigs.