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1. woodru+fO[view] [source] 2026-01-07 20:41:44
>>atestu+(OP)
Of note: the US's per capita consumption of meat has increased by more than 100 pounds over the last century[1]. We now consume an immense amount of meat per person in this country. That increase is disproportionately in poultry, but we also consume more beef[2].

A demand for the average American to eat more meat would have to explain, as a baseline, why our already positive trend in meat consumption isn't yielding positive outcomes. There are potential explanations (you could argue increased processing offsets the purported benefits, for example), but those are left unstated by the website.

[1]: https://www.agweb.com/opinion/drivers-u-s-capita-meat-consum...

[2]: https://ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detai...

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2. underd+xa1[view] [source] 2026-01-07 22:05:21
>>woodru+fO
Small nit - this is probably assumed, but I would like the unit to be explicit: Yearly per capita pounds of meat.

That is, how many pounds of meat the average American eats in a year. An increase of 100 pounds means about an extra quarter-pound a day.

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