Wednesday, October 23, 2024

TRENDS IN MEAT CONSUMPTION over the recent decade

 

40% of USA annual corn production and 60% of USA annual soybean production is currently used in livestock feeding.     Of course, the majority of forage production, in the form of pasturage, hay, haylage, balage, etc is also used in livestock feeding.

And how do we use this livestock?    For dairy, beef, pork, lamb, poultry and pets     (that includes horses)   Of the fraction utilized for meat consumption, the pounds eaten per person per year has increased slightly:

Chicken        115 # per person in 2020      vs  95 # per person in 2010.
Beef
                84 # per person in 2020      vs  82 # per person in 2010.
Pork
                67 # per person in 2020      vs
 59 # per person in 2010.
Lamb
     under 2 # per person in 2020      vs 1# per person in 2010.

Of 268 pounds of livestock meat consumed in 2020,  Beef  represented 31.5% of the total.    This compares to 34.75% of the total consumed in 2010.

Is any livestock meat being replaced by seafood (wild caught plus farmed)?
Seafood        19 # per person in 2020      vs  16 # per person in 2010

Fake “meats” made from soybeans have proven to be negligible in consumption.

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