[lbo-talk] meat

[Eric Beck]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:27 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> In his chapter on the need to reduce meat consumption, McWilliams (in _Just
> Food_) says that New Zealanders eat 312 lbs of meat a year, Cyprusians (?)
> eat 288 lbs, USers eat 273, the Irish eat 233 lbs, the Swedish 167 lbs.
> Europeans, on average, eat 198 lbs.

That is crazy. I wonder if they mean "consume" rather than "eat," so
it includes other things made from livestock. And/or if they include
all the parts of the animal that don't actually get eaten?