When global food prices spiked upwards in 2007, the popular press explained the spike, in part, by rising demand for meat in rapidly-growing ‘emerging markets’ such as India and South Africa. Such an explanation was palpably wrong: people in rich countries consume more than three times as much meat, and more than four times as much dairy, as people in developing countries, with Americans consuming 121 kilograms of meat per person per year while South Asians and Africans consume, on average, 18 kilograms and 7 kilograms, respectively, per person per year. Thus, in 2010 countries with 12 per cent of the world’s population consumed nearly one third of global meat consumption, while countries with a little under half the world population consumed 16 per cent of meat consumption.

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• Akram-Lodhi, H., (2025), "The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.59)

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Original publication: Akram-Lodhi, Haroon. "The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 1, no. 2, 2014, pp. 23-26. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.59. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.