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    Will the price increase of pork make you eat healthier?

    • Last Update: 2021-06-28
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Original Zhong Kai
     
    Regardless of whether you often go to the food market, you should be able to feel the recent rise in the value of "Second Brothers".
    People who are "no meat and not happy" have expressed their wallets under pressure
    .
    Although the African swine fever epidemic has been effectively controlled, pork prices are expected to remain high for some time
    .
    Should we not eat meat, eat less meat, or change to other meat? How to do it more scientifically and rationally?
    First of all, from a health point of view, you should indeed reduce some pigs, beef, and mutton appropriately, and increase some chickens, ducks or aquatic products
    .
    According to the "Chinese Resident Dietary Guidelines" (2016), the intake of animal protein should be moderate, and fish and poultry should be preferred
    .
    The healthiest ratio is half fish and half meat, and half red and white meat
    .
    "Red" mainly refers to pork, beef, and mutton, while "white" mainly refers to chicken and duck
    .

     
    In fact, the Chinese dining table has been quietly changing
    .
    After decades of reform and opening up, the consumption of livestock and poultry meat has risen substantially, but the proportion of pork has been declining, from about 90% in the early days to about 60% at present
    .
    According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2017, the average Chinese ate about 20 kilograms of pork, 10 kilograms of poultry, 15 kilograms of aquatic products, and about 3 kilograms of beef and mutton
    .
    In other words, under the premise that the total amount remains the same, if the Chinese people want to have a more reasonable eating structure, aquatic products need to be increased by 60%, poultry meat needs to be increased by 20%, and pork, beef, and mutton need to be reduced by 50%
    .
    The reduced part is actually mainly pork.
    It just so happens that the price of pork has risen a lot.
    You should be more motivated to "adjust the structure"
    .


     
    Secondly, from the perspective of environmental protection and sustainable development, eating chicken is also the best choice
    .
    The "feed rate of return" of chickens is the highest among all livestock and poultry.
    For example, chickens can grow 6 taels of meat (duck is close to this) from eating 1 catty of feed, while pigs grow 3 taels, while cattle can only grow more than 1 taels
    .

    Feed costs account for about 70% of animal breeding costs, so chicken meat is cheap
    .
     
    This advantage of the chicken also means that it produces less excrement and requires less farmland and fertilizers and pesticides to produce feed for it.
    Therefore, the environmental burden is smaller and it is more in line with the development direction of "green water and green mountains"
    .
      
    Finally, I want to add that although the price of pork has risen, if you really like it, you can eat a little bit
    .
    Whether pork, beef, mutton, proteins are of human origin, but also micronutrient treasure, in particular the iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B and the like
    .
     
    In addition, it should be noted that red meat has more fat.
    It is recommended that you choose lean meat first, and pay attention to a reasonable combination with other diets
    .

     
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