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| Data - Diet Change |
| Domestic Cereal Supply: Food, Feed, Waste |
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This table was
complied from information available at FAO's Supply Utilization Accounts (SUAs). It shows
for selected countries, which percentage of the total domestic cereal supply was used for
direct human consumption, feeding animals, or was wasted.
In China 72 percent of all cereals available in the country where used for direct
human consumption; over 18 percent were fed to animals. More than 5 percent were wasted.
These data clearly indicate that in China much more crops are used for livestock
production (especially pigs) than, for instance, in India, where less than 1 percent of
the domestic cereal supply was used for that purpose.
The data also show that developed countries usually spend a much higher percentage
of the domestic cereal supply for livestock production than China. Despite the fact that
vegetarian diet is still popular in Japan, this country spends more than 44 percent of its
cereal supply for livestock production - more than twice as much as China.
Countries, such as Germany, Austria or the United States of America spend between
some 60 and 70 percent of the domestic cereal supply for feeding livestock. |
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Revision 2.0 (First revision published in 1999)
- Copyright © 2011 by Gerhard K. Heilig. All rights reserved. (First revision: Copyright © 1999 by IIASA.) |
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