Meat and Booze: The Recipe for Happiness?
October 9th, 2009 by Scott
A friend recently forwarded me the above infographic, a nifty little chart illustrating some of the larger and smaller meat consumers in the world, and exactly how much animal flesh we devour (or shy away from) per capita every year. According to the fine folks at GOOD:
An increase in the consumption of meat is directly correlated to an increase in a country’s economic development. As a country becomes richer, its citizens generally eat more meat, a much denser source of protein than is available in poorer countries. But the range of the amount of meat eaten in different countries around the world is truly astounding, from being barely enough for a few hamburgers to the weight of several people. This is a look at which countries are eating the most meat every year, on a per capita basis, and which are eating the least.
It’s a slick graphic, not necessarily political, but one of those images that pops up on the Internet to get your gears turning upstairs. I particularly enjoyed the way the authors gave us a frame of reference by listing the average weight of everyday objects, then totaling them up for us (apparently, I ate a pig, twenty-five chickens and a hot dog last year)…
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