Livestock production is growing faster than the capacity of
nations to safely and responsibly manage it, according to the
United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.  In the
latest edition of its flagship report, "The State of Food and
Agriculture," the FAO says that while the rapid growth of the
livestock sector is helping to improve human diets, it is also
posing a threat to poor farmers, the environment and human
health.  People in developing countries today are consuming
nearly twice as much milk, more than three times as much meat
and five times as many eggs as they did five decades ago,
according to the FAO report. Meanwhile, consumption of cereals
and root crops has been fairly flat. The higher intake of
livestock products, the report says, is the result of rising
population, urbanization and increasing affluence in many parts
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