Implications of “A Nation of Meat Eaters”

July 2012

NPR recently posted an article called A Nation of Meat-Eaters: See How It All Adds Up, showing that the US is the second largest meat-eating nation on a per-capita basis. Americans eat nearly 3 times the global average, with our total meat consumption nearly 6 times higher than a century ago.

And that’s not all that has increased…with an increase in meat consumption comes an increase in the weight of animals raised for food...

Source: Implications of “A Nation of Meat Eaters”
Author: FARM

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