Chicken Consumption Second only to Pork in China

Chicken is Chinese traditional food, since ancient times by the people of love. China traditional medicine, chicken with temperature in the Qi, tonifying and replenishing essence, invigorating the spleen and stomach, live blood, strong bones effect. And modern medicine thinks, chicken protein content is higher, many kinds of amino acids, and digestive rate is high, it is easy to be absorbed by the body.
The Chinese food composition table 2002 "the data show that, compared with red meat and pork, as white meat chicken with the nutritional characteristics of" high protein, low fat, low calorie ". Per 100 grams of chicken with 19.3 grams of high-quality protein, is far higher than that of pork 13.2 g, and fat is only 9.7 grams less than pork 37 grams of one third, the heat is only 167 thousand card, less than half of the pork 395 kcal.
From the perspective of environmental protection and energy conservation, chicken also has the advantage. Livestock industry is the main cause of the increase in carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations report in 2006. Compared to beef, mutton, pork, chicken production is more low carbon, more conducive to sustainable development. In addition, compared with pigs, cattle and other livestock, broiler feed conversion rate is higher, less consumption of resources. Per 1 kg of pork production and need about 3 kg of feed consumption, beef, 6 to 7 kg of feed and chicken only feed consumption 1.9 kg, comparative advantages are obvious.
In 2009 the data show that the United States per capita consumption of chicken 42.2 kilograms, 40.6 kg per capita in Saudi Arabia, 39.3 kg per capita consumption in the Brazil, which were much higher than those in China 12 kilograms per capita level. At present, Chinese has become the world's second largest after the U.S. chicken production country, per capita consumption of chicken after the pork.
The industry believes that with the continuous improvement of China's economic development and people's living standards, meat consumption structure of popular diets also undergoing profound changes, with pork as the representative of red meat consumption decreasing year by year, and with chicken as the representative of the white meat consumption are increasing year by year. Chicken meat consumption structure in the proportion of 5% from 1982 continued to rise to the current 20%. Calculated in accordance with this trend, is expected to 30 years of the 21st century, chicken will be more than pork become Chinese popular meat diet for the mainstream consumer.