Meat consumption in China and its impact on international food security: Status quo, trends, and policies

1.Background China has seen drastic nutrition transition and food structure change with rapid economic growth in the past three decades.Specifically,the traditional fibre-dominated food system is being replaced by a western-style meat-dominated diet(Yu and Abler 2009;Tian and Yu 2013).In traditional China meat was regarded as a rarity and normally consumed during festivals,now it has become daily food for most Chinese consumers.Though many controversies have been uncovered in meat statistics in China(Yu and Abler