caa a22 4500 388097019 CHVBK 20180307125306.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0029665199000464 doi S0029665199000464 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0029665199000464 Geissler Catherine Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AH, UK China: the soyabean-pork dilemma [Elektronische Daten] [Catherine Geissler] In 1996 the population of China reached 1.23 billion, 22 % of the world population, and is expected to increase to 1.5 billion by 2020. As China has only 7 % of the world's arable land such population increases are likely to have an important impact on food supply in China and the world. Projections of the potential impact are discussed. The restructuring of Chinese agriculture at the end of the 1970s has led to dramatic increases in agricultural production and food consumption, in particular of animal products, fruit and vegetables. Along with these rapid changes there is evidence of a nutrition transition in which diseases associated with affluence are becoming more prevalent than deficiency diseases. This transition has led to concern about the evolving dietary pattern. The replacement of legumes, including soyabean, by meat and other animal products as rich sources of protein and other nutrients has been controversially argued on grounds of nutritional health, ecological impact, economic effects and world food supply. These arguments are reviewed and the pressures internal and external to China concerning the production and consumption of animal v. legume products are presented. It is concluded that nutritional policies to promote the consumption of soyabean are unlikely to be effective in the context of an increasingly free and global market. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999 China nationallicence Food supply nationallicence Animal products nationallicence Legumes nationallicence Soyabean nationallicence Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/2(1999-05), 345-353 0029-6651 58:2<345 1999 58 PNS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199000464 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199000464 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Geissler Catherine Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AH, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/2(1999-05), 345-353 0029-6651 58:2<345 1999 58 PNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge