The meat of the global food crisis
The meat of the global food crisis
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全球粮食危机的根源
DOI：
10.1080/03066150.2012.752357
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发表时间：
2013
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T. Weis
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T. Weis
全球粮食危机被广泛描述为粮食和油籽市场的波动以及与之相关的许多穷人面临的粮食安全状况恶化。对这种波动有各种各样的解释，包括越来越多的以肉类为中心的饮食和对动物饲料需求的增加，尤其是在中国。这是一个非常片面的解读，因为粮食危机比最近的市场动荡要严重得多；当我们从工业谷物-油料-牲畜复合结构的生物物理矛盾以及它们现在如何加速的角度来理解它时，肉类就成为了故事的中心。工业化畜牧业生产是世界范围内肉类消费增长背后的驱动力，而大量工业化谷物和油籽在大量集中饲养的动物中循环的过程，扩大了与农业有关的土地和资源预算、污染和温室气体排放。这些动态不仅反映了差距，而且加剧了差距，首当其冲的是气候变化。因此，本文建议，肉类消费的增加和工业化畜牧业生产应该一起被理解为构成全球不平等的一个强大的长期矢量。
The global food crisis has been widely described in terms of the volatility of grain and oilseed markets and the associated worsening conditions of food security facing many poor people. Various explanations have been given for this volatility, including increasingly meat-centered diets and rising demand for animal feed, especially in China. This is a very partial reading, as the food crisis runs much deeper than recent market turbulence; when it is understood in terms of the biophysical contradictions of the industrial grain–oilseed–livestock complex and how they are now accelerating, meat moves to the center of the story. Industrial livestock production is the driving force behind rising meat consumption on a world scale, and the process of cycling great volumes of industrial grains and oilseeds through soaring populations of concentrated animals serves to magnify the land and resource budgets, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture. These dynamics not only reflect disparities but are exacerbating them, foremost through climate change. Thus, this paper suggests that rising meat consumption and industrial livestock production should be understood together to comprise a powerful long-term vector of global inequality.