Meat and milk intake to increase annually

AN explosion in meat and milk consumption in developing countries will lead to a world “livestock revolution”, the International Grassland Conference was told in Dublin yesterday.

Delegates were told that consumption in the developing world will increase by 3% per year between now and 2020. In contrast, annual consumption of meat and milk in developed nations will grow at less than 1% in the same period.

Christopher Delgado, of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, said the explosion in consumption in the developing world is being driven by billions of people diversifying primarily starch-based diets into small amounts of milk and meat.