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People working in the meat industry: could/can you actually feel the effects of the rise of veganism of the last ~10 years? How (much) did it affect the area you work in? (lemmy.world)

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Volume is pretty rigorously tracked by regulatory bodies that are responsible for food safety.

The US’s data is here: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/livestock-and-meat-domestic-data/

I’d copy and paste some stuff into this thread, but it looks like some parts of this site are under maintenance right now. That said, others have charted the data. https://www.agweb.com/opinion/drivers-us-capita-meat-consumption-over-last-century

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

Any idea what caused the dip from 04 to 09?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

There might be a number of factors, but most notably, beef prices started to rise and people switched to other meats, also 2003, 05 and 06 marked the first 3 documented outbreaks of mad cow disease in the US.

[-] DudeDudenson 3 points 8 months ago

Turns out the easiest way to get people to not eat meat is to just raise the prices

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

The deadly brain eating disease was also a good turn off when it became new to North America.

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