Butchers turn pork into various cuts for the Chinese market in the cutting room at the Jinluo Meat Products plant in Shandong Province. With some four thousand workers and the capacity to process thirty thousand pigs each day, it is one of the largest pork processing plants in the world. Even though China’s total meat consumption dwarfs other nations’, its per capita consumption remains half that of the United States, and the dominance of pork is shifting toward poultry and beef, which Chinese consumers believe are healthier options.
