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Nearly one in four in U.S. have cut back on eating meat! A new Gallup polls finds that Americans are eating less meat. Among the topline findings? About three in 10 women, people of color, and Democrats ate less meat last year, according to a telephone poll of more than 2,400 adults.  Even though plant-based meat companies often promote giving up meat for the environment’s sake, most of the respondents said they were doing it primarily for their health. And they were cutting back in old-fashioned ways—not so much with Impossible Burgers as smaller portions and subbing in vegetables.  Meat is here to stay—maybe just less of it.

Plant Based Meat Market 85 Billion Dollars in 2030s... A Swiss investment firm UBS estimates that the 4.6 billion dollars plant-based protein and meat market in 2018 will reach 85 billion dollars by 2030 (1). The same source adds that the plant-based milk market could reach 37.5 billion dollars for the 2025's, while the improving health and welfare of society is the main driver of these increases (one billion consumers in the next decade will move to the middle class!). On the other hand, in a report published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), it discussed the expectation of the increase in agricultural production towards the 2050's. The report mentioned the need to increase the amount of food we currently consume by 70 percent, while the increase is estimated to be around 80 percent for meat and 52 percent for grain. This means that today, 260 million tons of world meat production will have to be increased to 455 million tons in the 2050...