For example, per capita consumption of poultry in the United States has more than quadrupled since the end of World War II, as the industry developed a highly efficient production system.
Importantly, the current study also revealed an as yet little-addressed third dimension: purchasing power per capita and associated poultry production intensification (combined with agricultural population density).
Americans are downing close to 200 pounds of meat, poultry and fish per capita per year (dairy and eggs are separate, and hardly insignificant), an increase of 50 pounds per person from 50 years ago.
In 2003, the U.S. per capita consumption of total meats (including beef, pork, veal, lamb, poultry, fish, and shellfish) was 90.5 kg/year [ U.S. Department of Agriculture USDAA) 2005a].
Similarly, higher purchasing power per capita generally implies a restricted interface between people and their poultry, with reduced exposure to any sick or dead birds.
For example, the estimates are 0.433 for meats and 0.2964 for poultry products showing that a 10-percent increase in per capita income would increase their quantities demanded by 4.3 and 3percentt, respectively.
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), consumption of poultry meat in the Pacific has increased from an average of 19 kg per capita per year in 1980 to 34.4 kg per capita in 2002 [ 28].
In contrast to the consumption of pork or beef, the annual consumption of poultry increased from 1996 to 2006 in Germany (from 8.4 to 9.9 kg per capita) [ 18].
When five-to-seven billion people all demand equal energy consumption per capita, natural resources per capita (lumber, copper, steel, etc)., medical, health and educational resources and resource-intensive foods (meat, poultry, sugars, etc).; the way out is not linear scaling but rather resource multiplication through innovative technology.
