China is by far the world’s largest consumer of pork, eating over half the world’s supply. This also drives feed demand and this grain supply destruction. However, its per capita consumption is lower than many other large pork producing countries. Brazil and the Philippines are the largest consumers of pork on a per capita basis. Consumption is not so much in predominantly Muslim countries or in Israel. In his book Forbidden, Jordan Rosenblum notes that the Judeans were forced to eat the pork from Seleucid Greek’s sacrificed hogs. Some Jews chose death by torture rather than eat their religion’s forbidden food, leading to Rosenblum’s quip that pork was to die for.Over the past decade, there has been faster growth in pork consumption in Japa...

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