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FAO sounds off on impending beef crisis
United Press International
Published: Sept. 30, 2010 at 3:45 PM
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Food and Agriculture Organization officials attending a meat congress in Buenos Aires warned the world faced a developing crisis in beef production as global human population would soon outstrip the numbers that current or future supplies from livestock farming could feed.
Henning Steinfeld, coordinator of livestock, environment and development initiative at the FAO, warned delegates beef could become so scarce as to be equated with caviar, in the same way as salmon was a luxury food item half a century ago...