And it's not like the article claims that the Chinese diet is some vegetarian or vegan one, according to the article almost 50% of the protein Chinese people eat comes from animal sources. Which is still a lot, and still expected to increase.
By 2019, animal proteins accounted for 49.2 per cent of China’s protein intake, according to a Chinese study published last year in the peer-reviewed journal Environment, Development and Sustainability...
UN projections suggest that on present trends meat consumption in China could increase by 21 per cent from 2010 levels by the end of this decade
And it's not like the article claims that the Chinese diet is some vegetarian or vegan one, according to the article almost 50% of the protein Chinese people eat comes from animal sources. Which is still a lot, and still expected to increase.
Is that meat consumption per capita or for the whole country