It's a meat market

MEAT is wonderful. Human beings are good omnivores and we have always been hunters as well as gatherers. Farming is always more efficient with a few animals on board: ruminants like cattle and sheep to eat the grass that grows where staple crops will not, and pigs and poultry to sweep up the leftovers. In Africa 80 per cent of farmers keep chickens for just this purpose. In the extreme north and in deserts meat can be the prime source of calories. For the world as a whole meat and milk are the guarantors of quality protein, and a key…