I think you still missed the point. I'm not arguing with your conclusion, but the way you "prove" it. Keep in mind the topic is "how is China able to provide e

I think you still missed the point. I'm not arguing with your conclusion, but the way you "prove" it. Keep in mind the topic is "how is China able to provide enough food for 1.4 billion people", which implies they must have some efficient or cheap way. And I'd agree "rice" probably is one of the reason. However, you firstly used "Shanghai's white-collar" as an example, which is the least representative group for this topic (because how cheap the food is is less of a concern for the high-income groups). You also mentioned obesity, which only dramatically increases when China got richer. Again, totally irrelevant to the topic. If anything, Chinese people probably eat less rice now due to the increase of variety.