Obviously, if all high-income countries were to follow these examples, they could reduce their crop harvests—because most of their grain harvests are not destined directly for food but for animal feed.75 But this is not a universal option. While meat intakes in many affluent countries have been declining and could be cut even further, they have been rising rapidly in such modernizing nations as Brazil and Indonesia (where they have more than doubled since 1980) and China (where they have quadrupled since 1980).76 Moreover, there are billions of people in Asia and Africa whose meat consumption
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