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| Pan, Chenjun; Kinsey, Jean D.. |
| Consumers in the United States consume 53 pounds of pork per capita per year. Forty percent of that pork enters the market by way of a contract with a packer or an integrated supply chain arrangement. Chinese consumers consume 37 pounds per capita. Eighty percent of that pork is produced in the backyards of millions of households all over the countryside. The supply chain that brings pork from hog to human is clearly different in these two countries, but both are moving in the same direction. In the United States, pork breeding produced leaner but heavier hogs by the late 1990's. This was largely in response to consumer demand for leaner meat and processors demand for less waste. Stricter sanitation regulation and quality control by food manufacturers... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14300 |
