Historians and anthropologists trace the national bias against Pelotas back to the early 19th century, when the city first emerged as a prosperous meat-exporting center.
Accra grew into a prosperous trading centre.
As China becomes more prosperous, it eats more meat.
But there is a fierce historic rivalry between the caillette makers of Chabeuil in the Drôme, a prosperous area rich in meat, and those of the neighboring Ardèche, a poorer region forced to use vegetables as filler.
Moreover, as people grow more prosperous they eat more meat, which will require even more crops to provide feed for livestock.China's demand for fertiliser is expected to be particularly buoyant as a result of its huge population and the poor quality of its arable land.
The cost of animal feed has risen by one-quarter in the last year, partly because more corn is being made into ethanol and partly because more prosperous workers are eating more meat, which requires more animal feed.
This presumes humans will not all soon shift to a purely vegetarian lifestyle, even though there are signs of what you might call "peak meat" (consumption, that is) in prosperous societies (Mark Bittman wrote a nice piece on this).
It'd be hard to find any argument that can justify the conditions in which animals are routinely raised for slaughter today in the concentrated, industrial-style form of husbandry that is required to provide cheap meat to growing and increasingly prosperous populations.
His father, who came from a prosperous family in France, owned a textile mill and meat market.
Over half a century, the duke and duchess transformed Chatsworth from a moldering money pit into a prosperous business, with boutiques and restaurants, a farm shop stocked with meat and produce from the estate, and an educational farmyard to teach children country traditions.
Major increases are foreseen in per capita consumption of fish, meat and milk products, especially in populous and increasingly prosperous Asia.
