““By the time of the American Revolution, all the data suggests Americans were eating between 150 and 200 pounds [of meat] a year,” says Roger Horowitz, director of the Hagley Museum and Library’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, and author of Putting Meat on the American Table. “That included everything from pork to muskrats.”
https://www.popsci.com/why-americans-eat-so-much-meat/
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