Have you ever wonder what if every chinese eat two eggs at week?
Well, many years ago I was watching The Nature of Things TV Show, and the history of a chinese governmento plan to augment protein in the chinese daily diet.
Very simple, give them 2 eggs at week!
But wait, how many resources are needed for this colossal project?
Well, we need the 8.67 % of the world wheat production!!
Almost twice the canadian wheat production, and 3/4 of USA production!!!
Here are the numbers:
A hen can lays about a 200 - 300 eggs in a year, so we can think a hen can feed 3 chinese people for year.
Chinese population: 1,307,842,645. (source: http://www.cpirc.org.cn/en/eindex.htm and changing)
So we need in a year 8*12*1.307.842.645 = 125,552,893,920 hen eggs!!
And we need 1,307,842,645/3 = 435,947,548 hens!!
In fact, china has 800,000,000 hens!! (source: http://www.vegansociety.com/html/animals/exploitation/hens.php)
A hen can eat about 0.13 Kg of wheat in a day, i.e. 109.5 kilograms in a year.
That leads to a necesity of 47736256542.5 kilograms, or 47,736,256.5 metric tons
The world wheat production is around 550.000.000 metric tons (source: http://www.fao.org)
So we need the the 8.67% of world wheat production.
Those are astronomicals numbers!!!
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