Why Americans Eat So Much Meat - Cheddar Explains

Americans love meat. In 2017, the average American ate 274 pounds of meat on average, placing it only behind Hong Kong for highest meat consumption in the world. So how did America become the meat eating nation we know today? In this episode, Cheddar goes back in time to explore how meat took over America -- and why Americans probably won’t give up their cheeseburgers anytime soon.

Further reading:

Our World In Data
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/me...
​​https://ourworldindata.org/meat-produ...

Pop Sci
https://www.popsci.com/why-americans-...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34166...

NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/...

Chicken Council
https://www.nationalchickencouncil.or... National

Statista
​​https://www.statista.com/statistics/1...

Eater
https://www.eater.com/22314220/climat...

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