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Eating Meat Is The Norm Almost Everywhere
Eating Meat Is The Norm Almost Everywhere
On average, 91 percent of people surveyed for Statista's Consumer Insights in 32 countries said that their diet contained meat – highlighting that despite the trend around meat substitutes and plant-based products, eating meat remains the norm almost everywhere in the world.
To satisfy the world's hunger for meat, 373 million tons of it were produced globally in 2024.
Because meat consumption typically increases as countries grow wealthier, that number has been rising.
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the chart below, in only three out of 32...
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