consistently gotten bigger and richer, and that means it wants more and better foods. The biggest single component of this bigger-and-richer is price-insensitive China. The preferred luxury food of the Chinese is pork, the Chinese hog herd is larger than the rest of the world’s combined, China’s own farmland is woefully inadequate to the task of feeding it, and the fastest way to fatten up a pig is to feed it soy. Unsurprisingly, Brazilian soy has been on a tear since 2000.
