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...plants that normally flourish there and fueling the massive dust storms that blow across China every spring. Nomadic herders have raised camels, goats, cows, and sheep on these grasslands for hundreds of years, but in the middle of the 20th century, China's population boom and demand for more meat sent livestock numbers soaring. By 1990, some regions were literally grazed bare, herders whose animals were dying off descended into poverty, and grasslands that used to harbor hundreds of plant species had turned to wasteland...
...Inner Mongolian village in which six dozen households have started populating their grasslands with chickens instead of hundreds of goats or sheep. More than 10,000 free-range chickens have fed on the grasslands' insects and plants, and then fertilized the land, restoring plant life and creating organic meat and eggs that can be sold at a premium. "Rich people in cities consume these products, and the money will come back to the people in Inner Mongolia, who can use the profit to protect their land," says Jiang. "In this way, the ecology can benefit from the economy...
Riga's Central Market is a playground for the serious food shopper. This vast bazaar houses hundreds of stalls in the airship pavilions, each of which specializes in a different category of fresh produce: meat, dairy, breads, fruits and veggies, and fish. Step inside any one of them and you're met with an environment so lively and authentic you'll be eager to claim your spot among the haggling locals...
Exploring the entirety of this enormous market would take hours, but you will quickly home in on traditional Latvian delights like fragrant rye bread and piragi, a baked roll filled with bacon. In the meat pavilion, beef-carvers exchange banter while elsewhere honey vendors capitalize on Latvia's rich history of beekeeping. They actively court passersby with samples drawn, for instance, from buckwheat blossoms...
...hungry Harvard student go when he has a hankering for something more exotic? Last Sunday, appetite in tow, I trekked up Kirkland Street to Savenor’s Market. Julia Child used to frequent this famed foodie haunt, a carnivore’s fantasyland that stocks every cut of meat imaginable and provides its products to local restaurants like Upstairs on the Square and Radius. Perusing the butcher’s section, I overheard a market employee apologetically tell one dejected customer that Savenor’s was out of ostrich fillets. Shame. Wild boar meat suddenly caught...