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Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Nov 23, 2015 (I)

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(1) Angus Whitley, Giving a New Meaning to Flying Cattle Class.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... -china-beef-craving

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Cows are shipped via 747s to satisfy China's hunger for beef
(b) quotation underneath the title in print: 'Sending them in by sea * * * limits you * * * to the coastal areas
(c) economy class
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_class
(also called coach class; colloquially: cattle class [or 'sardine class' in this Wiki page]; is the lowest travel class of seating in air travel, rail travel, and sometimes ferry or maritime travel

(d) "Cameron Hall, general manager for live exports at Elders Ltd, the Adelaide, Australia-based rural-services company that managed the first flight on Oct 20"
(i) Adelaide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide
(capital city of the state of South Australia; Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV)
(A) William IV of the United Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom
(1765 – 1837; reign 1830-1837; third son of George III and younger brother and successor to George IV [who was eldest son of George III]; Successor: Victoria)
(B) some monarchs of House of Hanover: George III ---> George IV ----> William IV -----> Victoria
(C) Victoria was William IV's niece and daughter of George III's fourth son Edward (Edward died before William IV did). Victoria was "the only legitimate grandchild of George III."
(D) George IV had one legitimate daughter, and William IV had two (neither had legitimate sons; in UK, illegitimate children can not inherit the throne). But those three had died before Victoria was born.
(ii)
(A) Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792-1849; father was Duke of Saxe-Meiningen)
(B) Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Saxe-Meiningen
(1680-1918)

Meiningen is a town.

(e) "China will eat an extra 2.2 million tons of beef a year by 2025, according to Rabobank -- enough to make 19 billion quarter-pounders. The demand pushed up Chinese prices fourfold since 2000 [adjusted by inflation?] to about $10 a kilogram [2.2 pounds] in June -- making them among the most expensive in the world and more than double the benchmark rate in Australia."
(f) "Part of the reason for growth [in beef consumption in China] is a change in diet. For centuries China’s favored meat has been pork, partly because backyard pigs not only supplied meat, but were good at turning waste into manure. Until recently, beef -- once known as 'millionaire’s meat' -- was very rare.  Hog meat now accounts for less than 60 percent of total protein demand in China compared with more than 90 percent three decades ago, according to New Hope Group Co 新希望集团, the nation’s biggest maker of animal feed.  That means the rise of a $60 billion-a-year beef market. And in China, almost every part of the animal is used."

(g) "Other exporters are planning sea voyages for their cows.  In the Western Australian port of Fremantle, Wellard struck a beef supply deal in August with China’s Fulida Group 浙江富丽达. The Australian company has ordered two ships, to be delivered in the next two years, that will help carry around 60,000 cattle a year to China on voyages that take less than a month.  Kuwaiti-owned shipper Rural Export & Trading (WA) Pty, based in Perth, is also making plans for its first cattle deliveries to China."
(i) Wellard (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellard_(disambiguation)
("Wellard, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth")
(ii) Fremantle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle
(serves as the port of Perth; The city is named after Captain Charles Fremantle, the English naval officer who had pronounced possession of Western Australia)
(iii) Rural Export & Trading (WA) Pty, where WA stands for Western Australia.
(iv) Pty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pty
(an mean: "Proprietary company, a business structure under Australian and South African law")
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