History of food consumption in the late-18th- to 19th-century in America

Roger Horowitz, Putting Meat On the American Table (Baltimore, MD: John's Hopkins University Press, 2000): 11 - 17; Adapted from Carrie R. Daniel et al., "Trends In Meat Consumption in the USA".

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https://www.theatlantic.com/…/how-americans-used-to…/371895/

How Americans Got Red Meat Wrong

Early diets in the country weren't as plant-based as you might think.

THEATLANTIC.COM

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Danny Vega Great article! Shared

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Kalyn Roberts As a farmer/homesteader I've thought about this a lot. Producing enough meat for a year is fairly easy compared to trying to produce enough fruit/vegetables. A big garden and orchard are very labor intensive. Raising chickens, pigs, and cattle is certainly less involved, especially if you let them free range, don't overcrowd, and use integrated farming practices. Not to mention, storing most fruits/vegetables long term is kind of a pain in my opinion, compared to meat that traditionally would've just been killed as needed and the extra salted/smoked and hung in the rafters.

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Mita Miller Woah, I didn't know this. "It implies that our health problems are associated with this rise in meat consumption, but these analyses are misleading because they lump together red meat and chicken into one category to show the growth of meat eating overall, when it’s just the chicken consumption that has gone up astronomically since the 1970s. "