COVID-19 and the Asian meat complex

Author: Arve Hansen and Jostein Jakobsen, University of Oslo While parts of East Asia have long been home to meat-intensive diets, the last couple of decades have seen the production, trade and consumption of meat increase dramatically . The region is undergoing a dramatic process of what geographer Tony Weis has dubbed ࢀ˜ meatification ࢀ™. This change has led to the emergence of an Asian ࢀ˜ meat complex ࢀ™ tying Asian countries to each other and to the larger world through the medium of meat commodities and their feedstocks. The COVID-19 pandemic has large ramifications for the Asian meat complex….