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cord-018699-gri4vybv	Tobias, Michael Charles	China Declares Global State of Emergency: An Urgent Telegram from Taihu	2014-06-10		.txt	text/plain	2723	111	52	May 18th, 2013, China's 4th most powerful politician, Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) opened the Second Conference of the (carbon-neutralized) Taihu World Cultural Forum in Hangzhou, a city 1 h by speed train southwest of Shanghai. Today that person eats over four times more…." Moreover, says Davison, "pork is China's favourite meat [9] : last year the country produced 50 million tons--more than half the world's total." With increased income generation, more pigs will be slaughtered, more effluent emitted, contributing to the overall groundwater and air pollution drama deeply embedded in everybody's life across China ( Fig. 27.4) . Professor Peter Li [10] has elsewhere stated that "China surpassed the US as the world's biggest meat producer in 1990, and the Chinese authorities have long looked to the industrialized West as the object of emulation in meat production." But, at the same time, "China has lagged behind the industrialized nations in animal protection law-making for more than 180 years ( Fig. 27 .5)."	./cache/cord-018699-gri4vybv.txt	./txt/cord-018699-gri4vybv.txt