"Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China"

This is a nice sociology and geography paper focusing on "meatification" in East Asia, the transition of culture to more intensive consumption of animal-based food.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04353684.2019.1709217

Another useful term mentioned is:

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‘the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’
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I recommend reading it entirely, it's fairly accessible.

From the conclusion:

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Global meat consumption continues increasing, representing the core of the unsustainability of global food and agriculture and based on massive violence against non-human animals. Much of the current expansion is driven by changes in middle-income countries, yet surprisingly little work has been done on meat consumption in these countries. This could partly be due to the fact that mainstream accounts within food, agriculture and nutrition tend to see this expansion as a ‘natural’ outcome of increases in income and urbanization levels, and that critical scholarship has focused mainly on particular regimes of production as central explanation for meat booms. This paper has argued for combining a political economy and economic geography of meat approach with factoring in everyday food practices. Such a multi-scalar approach has been carried out by studying meatification using both top-down and bottom-up approaches. Specifically, we have analysed expanding meat production in two of the fastest meatifying countries in the world, China and Vietnam, through the lens of an emerging Asian meat complex. Furthermore, we have focused on infrastructure and introduced the concept of meatscapes in order to study the integration of large-scale meatification processes in the places and spaces of everyday life.
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#meat #diet #China #Vietnam #meatBased #animal #foodSystem #sustainability #meatification #meatscape

Crop burning:
Upland forests are being increasingly damaged. A mountainside burned off for maize becomes eroded and less productive, necessitating the clearance of more slopes.

Farmers are therefore clearing land to grow these crops. Much of the maize grown in these three countries is turned into animal feed and exported to China where there has been a boom in #meat demand. Some academics call the phenomenon #meatification.
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Thailand-s-air-pollution-crisis-deepens-amid-seasonal-crop-burning #Brazilification #climateChange #agriculture