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The average American eats twice as many kilograms of meat than the next nationality (last time I checked it was the British). As the article states, beef is by
by jgorham 15y ago
The average American eats twice as many kilograms of meat than the next nationality (last time I checked it was the British). As the article states, beef is by far the most environmentally draining; it turns out in terms of protein and calories, pork is nearly the same as beef with a much smaller amount of energy required to produce that meat. If the US had a better food culture [I'm not counting fast food here], we might be able to actually change the mindsets of the public that they dont need a meat entre with every meal.
- hugh3 15y agoIs that really true? More than twice as much meat as, say, the Australians, Germans and Argentinians? update: According to http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/meat-consumption-per-capita-climate-change http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/m... your implausible-sounding numbers are wrong. In fact US meat consumption (at least as of 2002) is in line with the other agriculturally-rich Western countries, and well behind Denmark and New Zealand. (Australia is missing from the statistics.)