Issue 21: Animal-source foods in member countries of Gulf Cooperation Council

All six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council or GCC ("Gulf" because they are all adjacent to the Persian Gulf) - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - have extraordinarily high wealth per capita and not an exceptionally large number of mouths to feed. One would think that apprehensions about food issues, including those related to animal-source foods, don't exist in these countries. But is that really the case?

Academic papers featured in this issue of ASWT reveal the reality that access to and availability of animal-source foods are in fact a cause for concern in these countries, and serious measures are taken to address them. So it is worthwhile for those interested in the production and consumption of animal-source foods in the Gulf region to "look under the hood" to understand more deeply what's happening in that part of the world.