Mia MacDonald and Wanqing Zhou Published in China Dialogue

Executive Director, Mia MacDonald, and associate Wanqing Zhou were recently published in China Dialogue in an article titled “China needs to assess the true costs of factory farming.” Inspired by the Year of the Rooster, MacDonald and Zhou urge people to take the opportunity to think about the real costs of industrial farming and the overconsumption of meat. China is the world’s top producer of chicken meat and eggs, producing nine billion birds raised for meat and nearly 500 billion eggs. Chickens are often thought to be more efficient than other types of animal protein, but their water footprint is considerable at 19.4 litres of water for every “broiler” chicken.  There is a Chinese version of the article available here.