Pork dominates the meat menu in China. The 57 million tons of pork consumed in China in 2021 accounted for 60 percent of total meat consumption. Most of the Chinese consumers surveyed report purchasing pork in the past month—a much higher rate than for their global peers (Exhibit 3).
Yewei can include badgers, bats, beavers, civets, crocodiles, foxes, giant salamanders, hedgehog, marmots, ostrich, otters,pangolins, peacocks, pheasants, porcupines, rabbit and rabbit organs, rats, snakes (including many-banded krait), spotted deer, turtles and wolf pups.
China's meat industry produces and consumes a wide variety of meats, including pork, beef, poultry, and other meats such as lamb, goat, and fish. Historically, pork and poultry have been the most popular meats in China, due in part to their affordability and widespread availability.
1. Pork. Pork, the meat from hogs, or domestic swine, is the most consumed animal in the world at 36% (Source: UN-FAO).
Chicken meat most popular meat in Australian diet, new trends for other meats.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, pork is the most widely eaten meat in the world (36%) followed by poultry (33%), beef (24%), and goats/sheep (5%).
Chinese people basically eat all animals' meat, such as pork, beef, mutton, chicken, duck, pigeon, as well as many others. Pork is the most commonly consumed meat, and it appears in almost every meal.
Pork dominates the meat menu in China. The 57 million tons of pork consumed in China in 2021 accounted for 60 percent of total meat consumption. Most of the Chinese consumers surveyed report purchasing pork in the past month—a much higher rate than for their global peers (Exhibit 3).
China is a big consumer of rat meat. It is commonly sold raw in Chinese meat markets, and can also be purchased cooked from various shops and street vendors. Some of the markets in China also offer live rats for sale.
However, as far as I know, the soup made of mosquitoes' eyeballs is considered one of the most luxurious dishes in China.
The red panda
The national animal in China is the giant panda.
It's estimated that in China alone,10 million dogs and 4 million cats, are slaughtered for their meat each year.
China consumes the second greatest amount of chicken in the world. China consumes approximately 12,000 metric tons of chicken every year. Even though China is significantly larger than the United States, it does not consume as much chicken as the United States.
China: National Dish – Peking Duck (in Chinese 北京烤鸭)
World famous, this dish is known for its super crispy awesome skin with the flesh remaining both tender and succulent. The most popular way of serving peking duck is in a thin pancake with plum dipping sauce as an accompaniment…….
Today's sushi is most often associated with Japanese culture, though the many variations of sushi can actually be traced to numerous countries and cultures including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
The combination of subsistence-driven (food pressure) and religious doctrine (supernatural obsession) effectively supported the beef taboo in China during its long history, except for some short periods when nomadic people such as the Mongols ruled China.
Lamb or mutton is a less common meat in China, and is only commonly used where there are large areas of pasture, such as in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
Many Dongyang residents, young and old, said they believed in the tradition passed on by their ancestors that the eggs decrease body heat, promote better blood circulation and just generally reinvigorate the body. “By eating these eggs, we will not have any pain in our waists, legs and joints.
Vegetarianism and veganism are growing trends in China. Public Radio International estimated in 2013 that 4-5% of China's population was vegetarian, representing over 50 million people.
The top consumer of pork in 2021 continued to be China, taking into account its special economic regions Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China, whose consumptions were about 61, 52, and 37 kg/inhabitant respectively.
India - 3 kg per capita
The world's second most populous, with an astonishing 1.3 billion people, India holds the distinction of consuming the least meat per capita. With its staggering population, this is even more striking, and indeed with only 3 kg of meat per capita per year consumed, no other country eats less.