The top consumer of pork in 2021 continued to be China, taking into account its special economic regions Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China, whose consumptions were about 61, 52, and 37 kg/inhabitant respectively.
The meat is highly prized in Asian cuisines, especially in China (including Hong Kong) and Northeast India, for its fat content and texture. Some religions and cultures prohibit pork consumption, notably Islam and Judaism.
Despite eating more seafood and poultry, Hong Kong leads the world in pork consumption per capita annually at 55 kg (121 lbs). This is almost equivalent to the average amount of retail pork harvested from a single 250 lb pig.
Pork is a food taboo among Jews, Muslims, and some Christian denominations. Swine were prohibited in ancient Syria and Phoenicia, and the pig and its flesh represented a taboo observed, Strabo noted, at Comana in Pontus.
Pakistan - 12.7 kg per capita
On average, 12.7 kg of meat per capita is consumed by Pakistanis, with veal and beef accounting for some 6.35 kg. Poultry consumption is just under 4.53 kg, while pork is consumed the least due to Islamic dietary laws prohibiting the consumption of this meat.
Bacon is one of the oldest - and most popular - meats in the world. It dates back to 1500 B.C., when the Chinese began curing pork bellies with salt, creating the earliest form of bacon. Today, bacon is enjoyed around the world, especially in Denmark, which ranks #1 in bacon consumption per capita.
Global Lamb And Sheep Meat Consumption
With nearly X thousand tons, China became the world's leading lamb and sheep meat consuming country, making up X% of global consumption.
Dogs in Islam, as they are in Rabbinic Judaism, are conventionally thought of as ritually impure. This idea taps into a long tradition that considers even the mere sight of a dog during prayer to have the power to nullify a pious Muslim's supplications.
Christians may eat pork because God has declared it once more to be clean. “What God has declared clean you must not call common” (Acts 10:15). Pork is one of those “foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth” (1Timothy 4:3).
The Quran also bans pig-eating
Islam is an Abrahamic faith that shares many important beliefs, prophets, and traditions with Judaism and Christianity (via World History Encyclopedia). And just like the Bible, the Quran also explicitly forbids the consumption of pork, as well as certain other types of meat.
Australia produces around 367,000 tonnes of pig meat every year. A little over 10% is exported to countries like Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong, and 25% is sold through restaurants and other food service outlets in Australia.
The countries with the highest volumes of poultry consumption in 2019 were: China (20 million tonnes), the US (19 million tonnes) and.
While pork is rich in several important vitamins and nutrients, it can also be high in sodium and saturated fats, two things that should be avoided as part of a healthy diet.
Both Judaism and Islam have prohibited eating pork and its products for thousands of years. Scholars have proposed several reasons for the ban to which both religions almost totally adhere. Pork, and the refusal to eat it, possesses powerful cultural baggage for Jews.
The population of China consumed 43 million 050,000 tons of pork in 2020 and that amount represented a decrease of 4% year-on-year. But that volume comprised 44.3% of world pork consumption last year. After China, the European Union registered a consumption of 19 million 668,000 tons, a contraction of 3.7% per year.
Quintessentially, the Torah explicitly declares the pig unclean, because it has cloven hooves but does not ruminate.
Pope John Paul II upheld the church's traditional prohibition on condoms.
Although many Muslims in other countries do not view touching dogs as forbidden, conservative Islamic groups here say the Shafie school of Islamic jurisprudence that they follow views dogs as unclean and requires the faithful to undergo a ritualistic wash if they come into contact with canines.
There is a general consensus among Sunni and Shia fiqh experts that Surah Al-Baqarah 221 and Surat Al‑Mumtahanah 10 ban Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men. This consensus is still standing strong. On the other hand, the Quran allows Muslim men to marry non-Muslim women (“People of the Book”).
Nevertheless, Islamic scholars have tended to regard dogs' saliva as impure; practically, this means anything licked by a dog necessitates washing. Many Islamic jurists allowed owning dogs for herding, farming, hunting, or protection, but prohibited ownership for reasons they regarded as "frivolous".
Many social commentators believe the drive to eat more lamb came from the excess production of sheep's wool for export, notably to China and Turkey.
Because Lamb from Australia has the 'all-natural advantage' and is available in a wide array of product lines and cuts. It's pasture-raised, grassfed, and free of artificial additives as well as hormone growth promotants - a pure product of its pure environment.
Slaughter: Lambs
The majority of sheep killed in Australia are lambs, slaughtered around 6 – 8 months of age. Sheep can naturally live up to 20 years, with a typical lifespan of 10-12 years. Every year an average of 22.72 million lambs are slaughtered.