(Hindus don’t eat beef, Muslims don’t eat pork). So chicken meat is going to be eaten more there.
This is plausible in principle, but it seems that in practice, India has quite low per-capita poultry consumption, although this is partly because India is so poor even relative to China.
It turns out that India is the biggest exporter of beef and the biggest producer of milk. This page shows India as having the world’s biggest cattle population. Of course, some of the causal responsibility for this belongs to beef consumption in the importing countries.
possible + net utility of certain forms of factory farming
This is plausible in principle, but it seems that in practice, India has quite low per-capita poultry consumption, although this is partly because India is so poor even relative to China.
It turns out that India is the biggest exporter of beef and the biggest producer of milk. This page shows India as having the world’s biggest cattle population. Of course, some of the causal responsibility for this belongs to beef consumption in the importing countries.
Another possible benefit of animal (or at least cattle) farming is lowering wild-insect populations.
Updated on India and beef exporting, thanks for the numbers!