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In reality, people eat slightly less meat than this, but it's still a close estimate. Middle-income countries driving the demand for meat It is clear that the richest countries eat a lot of meat ...
- Demand For Meat Is only Going Up
- Why Is A High Consumption of Meat A Problem?
- Meat Is Very "Inefficient" Food
- Meat Consumption Around The World
- Eating So Much Resource Intensive Meat Is A Problem
The production of meat has doubled in the 30 years from 1988 to 2018 and increased four-fold since the mid 1960s. And production is expected to continue to grow. By 2050, global meat consumption is projected to reach between 460 million and a staggering 570 million tons. 570 million tons would mean a consumption of meat twice as high as in 2008.
There are many reasons meat consumption is problematic. Meat is a very “inefficient” food source. It requires more energy, water and land to produce meat than any other food source. Meat production is also a large source of greenhouse gas emissions and thereby plays a major role in climate change.
Meat has a much higher “energy footprint” than any other food. It takes 75 times more energy to produce meat than corn. And it takes an area of vegetation 7 times the size of the EU to produce food for the cattle and other livestock animals in Europe.
The consumption of meat varies widely between countries. The top meat-eating countries are (kilos per person per year): 1. The US: 124 kilos 2. Australia: 122 kilos 3. Argentina: 109 kilos 4. New Zealand: 101 kilos 5. Spain: 100 kilos. On the other end of the spectrum, a number of African countries consume less that 20 kilos of meat per person a ye...
There is a limit to how long we can continue our current diet in western countries. With unchanged eating habits, the world population could be too big to feed itself by 2050 when we will reach a global population of almost 10 billion people.
According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), between 1990 and 2009, aggregate global meat consumption increased by almost 60 percent and per capita consumption by almost 25 percent. Meat consumption is expected to continue increasing by 1.7 percent per year through 2022.
Oct 9, 2022 · China, which increased its per capita meat consumption by 12.8 percent between 2008 and 2017, now accounts for more than a quarter of the world’s total meat consumption. Even though France’s ...
Aug 4, 2023 · by Kenny Torrella. Aug 4, 2023, 1:00 PM UTC. Chicken is the most popular meat in the world, with 74 billion slaughtered in 2021 alone. Dimas Ardian/Getty Images. Kenny Torrella is a senior ...
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Nov 1, 2022 · What's more, 60% of global biodiversity loss is caused by meat-based diets, according to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) sources. The psychology behind eating meat Yet, many of us continue to eat meat ...
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Global meat intake per person has nearly doubled in the last fifty years. Adjust the timeline below to measure the average person’s daily consumption of meat. This interactive was built in ...
