Global livestock counts

@nkab

"My Indian friends told me once cows in India are responsible to have saved tens of thousands of pedestrian lives each year, by roaming on Indian streets as some speeders’ alert."

I believe it too. I often wonder how traffic would "flow" whenever I'm stuck in traffic in say Mumbai or New Delhi. The pedestrians seem to be taking on suicidal missions. Thank the cows.

So the United States has the most food (top 3 per capita) in the tasty animals (sheep, bleh!). Might explain why food is historically so low priced. Coupled with probably one of the highest farm production rates, it explains why they're so fat.

@Houshu wrote: Jul 27th 2011 6:54 GMT

“These kinds of data, such as the urine tonnage data compiled by UNUC (united nation urine commission), should really be ranked on the per capita basis. Otherwise China will again rank number one in the aforementioned UNUC data...”
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Wow, that’s a lot of ammonia and stuff waiting to be converted and packaged for export. There is no point to mine bird drops off faraway archipelago islands anymore.

@Daveycool wrote: Jul 27th 2011 9:19 GMT

"cow-revering India" seems to be kind of an undertatement.”
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My Indian friends told me once cows in India are responsible to have saved tens of thousands of pedestrian lives each year, by roaming on Indian streets as some speeders’ alert. They should not be eaten.

@Captain Nanimo wrote: Jul 28th 2011 9:07 GMT

“The scribblers at The Economist probably don't realize that "chicken" in Cantonese slang means "prostitute", so they might like to revise their numbers up!”

== Don’t so stupid, they say that (chicks) in English world too.

@sikko6 wrote: Jul 28th 2011 12:02 GMT
“…China is the modern day Typhoid Mary of Inflation……”

== Sure thing, of that 9.5% inflation in India, 9.4% is likely from Chinese. But don’t blame them, blame the ever inflationary merry-go-around:

Americans feed bankers (buying up their financial derivatives); bankers (mostly Jewish people) feed Chinese (eating up at Chinese restaurants); Chinese feed Americans (buying up their corns and soy beans)….And the virtuous cycle continues.

May be I should amend it to read “Chinese feed Indians inflation”, but that doesn’t rhyme very well. So what can one do?

@Haijun wrote: Jul 28th 2011 7:51 GMT
“In China,the best livestocks have been exported to developed countries.leaving the bad for ourselves.”

== You are misinformed. We exported everything, good or not. And we import everything, good or not, such as:

Danish ham, German ham knuckle, Pakistani mangos, Italian salami, Australian beef, Russian raw fish eggs, French snails, Norwegian salmon (not the Brevivk kind of course), Japanese “research-only” raw whale meat, ….etc, etc. America? I am running out food items, how about bonds & notes for now?

I wonder if France is on the top if frogs are counted.

I wonder if France is on the top if frogs are counted.

I wonder if France is on the top if frogs are counted.

The scribblers at The Economist probably don't realize that "chicken" in Cantonese slang means "prostitute", so they might like to revise their numbers up!

No matter how many animals the Chinese eat, they have to undertake lots of burden from food price.

though China own the largest number of pigs, the price of pork has risen 50% compare to last year, reaching a record level in May this year.
In China,the best livestocks have been exported to developed countries.leaving the bad for ourselves.

Country with the biggest population has the biggest amount of food. Interesting...

damn, no wonder my white friends always tell me I smell like a pig..and chicken out on 'actions'

Green speed and flatulence to the European greenies that would kill Indian cows when the Hindu population catches up with them.

"Also, a large portion of mexico's chicken population are not considered live stock but gladiators."

...and sheep in Scotland are considered sex therapists.

Again, it’s just a bit of fun, really.

So you see why China is the modern day Typhoid Mary of Inflation. China does not have enough production of grains to feed livestocks. She has to import lots of grains. That's why we see huge inflation in global grain prices, and thus meat prices.

Hindus do not eat beef, Muslims and Jews do not each pork, Christians (or so called Westerners) do not each dog meat or horse meat (they can't agree even among themselves).

We Chinese eat them all, and many more; but donkey meat beats them all!

For some people, disbelief is their last straw; while for some other, it's name calling.

If only that makes you feel better.

I understrand dogs dont lay egss, neither provide dairy and Dog Dung is useless too.

However my Chinese friends would definately contradict me about the utillity of the dog and perhaps Economist too for excluding the dog from these good charts.

So what if 80% of the planets humans do not agree, let everyone have a voice.

I'm sorry but it was a Hare Krishna cow sanctuary

he was making cow dung cakes for fuel... Pilkington went "they shouldn't have the word 'cake' in it" "it is proper cow sh*t"

the products... were soap made from cow dung juice and ... tooth powder "made from cow urine, cow dung, pepper"... use it like toothpaste... and a hair tonic to grow hair with made from... cow waste...

"cow-revering India" seems to be kind of an undertatement. I saw a very funny episode of "an Idiot Abroad" where Karl Pilkington went to India and got his hands full of cow dung making something, can't remember what.... maybe a structure out of dung... then he went to a shop that sold products made out of cow dung -- lotion for the skin, fragrance (fragrance!), etc. Pilkington thought the reverence was a bit overdone... I was in stitches...