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Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds (www.theguardian.com)

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UN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising

The average person eats about six times as much chicken and twice as much pork as their grandparents’ generation did, data from a UN report suggests, with global meat supply having risen fourfold in the last 60 years and expected to keep rising.

The supply of poultry rose from below 3kg a person in 1961 to 17kg in 2022, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Pork supply doubled to 15kg a person over the same period, while beef, the most polluting food, stayed steady at 9kg.

Agriculture is the second most polluting sector of the global economy. Its planet-heating emissions are forecast to rise by 7.6% over the next decade, according to the FAO’s review of the science on the drivers of meat supply and demand, with livestock responsible for an estimated 80% of the increase.

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wait until they figure out about mushrooms, seitan, tofu etc. Nevermind, suddenly it's not about health and protein anymore.

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Taste, convenience and local availability all matter too. In fact there’s a whole massive ecosystem of influences creating the observable change that we are talking about.

There’s also a whole massive ecosystem of changes that haven’t created the change you want here.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Does taste and convenience matter more than cruelty and violence?

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

This is a conversation about why a broad group of people have certain behaviors, and the observations I made were in regards to the common “why” for that broad group of people.

You’re trying to make the conversation about why those people making those decisions are wrong in your opinion, but that wasn’t what we were talking about. We were talking about “why” they were making their decisions, not “was their decision moral”.

You’re getting downvotes because you’re trying to have a different conversation than was being had, and don’t seem to be understanding that.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

This is a narrow take. You can switch from beef to chicken to be healthier. You're not saying i want to eat the healthiest version regardless of when I enjoy, you're saying between these two meats I enjoy, chicken is the healthier protein. It's not a lie that it's about health just because they're not following your standards