How China Could Change the World By Taking Meat Off the Menu

t’s lunchtime in Shanghai’s leafy former French Concession, and every table is crammed at David Yeung’s new café and grocery, Green Common. Office workers and shoppers huddled against the January chill are wolfing down plates of katsu curry, noodles andFor Yeung, the popularity of his first outlet on the Chinese mainland is a source of considerable pride, given that its doors opened barely two weeks earlier.

The largest impact may be not on the economy but on the environment. China has already pledged to see carbon emissions peak by 2030 and make the world’s worst polluter carbon-neutral by 2060. As livestock farming produces 20% to 50% of all man-made greenhouse gases, finding alternative protein sources is crucial to meeting these targets. Halving China’s animal-agriculture sector could result in a 1 billion metric-ton reduction of CO2 emissions.

Following the coronavirus outbreak, which was first detected in China, governments and consumers around the world are more cognizant of the swelling risks posed by industrial farming and reliance on imported food. But COVID-19 wasn’t the only, or even the first, alarm bell. The ASF outbreak that decimated China’s pig population in 2019 resulted in national pork output hitting a 16-year low.

In China, by contrast, “mock meat” has been popular with Buddhists, who often do not eat meat, since the Tang dynasty, with tofu a substitute for fish and taro for shrimp. Fried dough sticks dunked in soy milk—records of which date back 1,000 years—remain a popular breakfast across the Middle Kingdom. Vegetarian restaurants are commonplace near Buddhist temples and shrines. Every Chinese supermarket stocks a dazzling array of bean curd and substitute meat products made with gluten.

The fact that plant-based proteins are currently priced considerably higher than their animal equivalents is an undeniable hurdle for notoriously thrifty Chinese consumers. Yet this is expected to change as competition and scale drive down costs. Moreover, snowballing agricultural crises like avian flu and ASF can make meat prices extremely erratic.

Albert Tseng, co-founder of impact investment firm Dao Foods, is backing 30 startups that focus on the Chinese plant-based-protein market, including established player Starfield. One venture is utilizing cell-based meat, or animal protein grown in a laboratory. Although more controversial than synthesizing meat from everyday plant materials like soy or wheat, the technology is growing fast. In 2017, China signed a $300 million deal to import cultured-meat technology from Israel.

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Let's talk about CCP human rights abuses before bothering with degustation topics or other trivialities

And Toroaba's guills ,tiger claws elephan t tusks , pangolines , wombats ,rinocerous horn etc etc

vmrwanda Maybe we should eat newspapers in the future

Diet mode 👍

Then let them. But don't try and bring that shit over here. We also do not want any lab grown shit either.

We don't eat meat anymore. We eat Westerners

They eat DOUBLE amount of meat per capita/year in the US than in China.

China can barely take endangered species off the meal.

But then how can they torture plants to affect its taste

China has already changed the world by spreading a virus.

How the TIME could change the world by putting shit on their editor's table.

simple facts, average per capita meat consumption: China: 61kg, US: 121kg, UK: 80kg, Germany: 80kg, France: 78kg, and most meat consumed in China is pork, while others more beef. Pork has abt 50% of emission compared with beef.

Britain should follow suit and open cafe/restaurants which are meat free.Hardly any in the Country. Even food stores like M&S,Waitrose have no plant based dishes available. Burger fried chicken sausages bacon are staple diet of most British people. How will we change their habit?

it's like reading the son of xi, how much does pay you to write such bullshit

the world eat meat 1000000years

Meat isn’t the enemy. Overly processed “food” is the enemy.

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