Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds

UN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising Analysis: Ingredients in place for shift to plant-based diets but meat still dominates The average person eats about six times as much chicken and twice as much pork as their grandparents’ generation did, data from a UN report suggests, with global meat supply having risen fourfold in the last 60 years and expected to keep rising. The supply of poultry rose from below 3kg a person in 1961 to...

By Ajit Niranjan