Eat Less Meat: A Small Change with a Big Impact

Industrial agriculture is reshaping the world, from our atmosphere to our dinner plates. Familiarize yourself with the current landscape: Meet your meats.

FURTHER READING AND DATA SOURCES

• American poultry and livestock consumption through history
• The Natural Resources Defense Council’s meat-eating study
• The climate price of meat production
• The growing demand for meat products worldwide
• The Meat Atlas 2014
• OECD’s global per-capita meat consumption data
• The Nation that Eats the Least Meat per Capita
• The concentration of animal agriculture in the U.S.
• Average farmed chicken size
• The Chinese government’s unease over the country’s shifting meat-eating habits
• China wants to cut meat-eating in half
• The real reasons why Americans are cutting back on their meat consumption
• Eat Less Meat, We’re Told. But Americans’ Habits Are Slow To Change
• Ag-gag laws across the country
• The largely untapped promise of carbon farming
• Carbon Farm plans
• And the bad news: American meat-eating is likely to rebound from its modest dip