As China grows its middle class those people are moving up the food chain and desire more meat products.
That’s a problem. It takes 3 kilograms of feed to grow 1 kilogram of meat and China has a limited ability to move from a largely grain based diet to one that more meat than traditionally desired or available.
Their lands are less able to grow foods as desertification takes place and each year more farming is being reduced by land so polluted that it cannot be ameliorated for generations to come.
Clean waters are each day being degraded as well, further reducing quality and quantity of food that can be produced.
The United States has 6 times more safe, clean arable lands.
China is moving to a position that makes it an imperative they import more food from other countries, particularly the United States.
So, I’m not sure this is a huge win due to a Trump demand but, maybe more driven by moving the timeline for our mutual necessities of equal commerce and their requirements to feed a population wanting better foods.
If Argentina hadn’t ruined themselves they would stand to benefit from such a situation.
Lab-Grown Meat May Save a Lot More than Farm Animals’ Lives
http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/innovation/lab-grown-meat-may-save-lot-more-farm-animals-lives-n743091
” It takes 3 kilograms of feed to grow 1 kilogram of meat ...”
That’s an oft-repeated half-truth (at best). I’m certainly not suggesting that you’re being duplicitous — but, the authors of the article are.
Here’s (part of) what’s left out of that statement:
1. Much of the “feed” mentioned is hay and pasturage. Converting it into meat adds to the supply of human food (rather than subtracting from it, as we’re being led to believe).
2. The meat produced has a lot more protein per pound than grains that are used to feed livestock. The ratios look a lot better for meat, if meat and grains are compared on the basis of protein content.