28 minutes ago, Deryn said:And frankly I cannot see (cow made) methane blasting major holes in the atmosphere either (or if I can, it is just a funny scenario in my head when I dream in cartoons - a billion cows standing around in fields, clothespins on their noses, emitting a constant stream of bubbles of smelly gas orbs that float skyward.
Very little cow meat (beef) is eaten in China (although it is rising). The vast majority of meat is pork, so much so that the word for meat, 肉, means pork unless specified otherwise. Of the other mammal meats, mutton is probably next, mainly in the north and west of China. Beef is a poor third, and very often isn't beef at all, but water buffalo. Chicken and duck (probably more duck than chicken) are No.2 to pork. One good thing is that most animals are eaten nose to tail, so very little is wasted.
A surprisingly high proportion of meats are organic. Those antibiotics etc are expensive. All the poultry and egg I buy is organic. However, there is no legal definition of "organic" in Chinese legislation, so who really knows?
