The Financial Times printed this sentence” “Meat is the new coal”. They were reporting how China is buying anything connected with pork production (including, last year, the biggest U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods for $7 billion) and, thanks also to China, Australian beef exports quintupled in 2013. In other words, food supply to China is going to figure as critically as mineral exports.

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