{"id":628,"date":"2011-09-04T22:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T02:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2011-09-04T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T02:30:35","slug":"the-weekend-interview-with-peter-brabeck-letmathe-can-the-world-still-feed-itself-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/04\/the-weekend-interview-with-peter-brabeck-letmathe-can-the-world-still-feed-itself-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Interview with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe: Can the World Still Feed Itself? &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#008080;\">Recent decades have seen &#8220;the creation of more than a billion new consumers in the world who have had the opportunity to move from extreme poverty into what we would call today a moderate middle class,&#8221; thanks to economic growth in places like China and India. This means a billion people who have &#8220;access to meat&#8221; for the first time, Mr. Brabeck-Letmathe [Chairman of Nestle] says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008080;\">&#8220;And the demand for meat,&#8221; he says, &#8220;has a multiplier effect of 10. You need 10 times as much land, 10 times as much [feed], 10 times as much water to produce one calorie of meat as you do to have one calorie of vegetables or grain.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904787404576529912073080124.html\">The Weekend Interview with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe: Can the World Still Feed Itself? &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent decades have seen &#8220;the creation of more than a billion new consumers in the world who have had the opportunity to move from extreme poverty into what we would call today a moderate middle class,&#8221; thanks to economic growth in places like China and India. 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