LOL, Bruce Jenner ate Wheaties, look what happened....
The total meat consumption statistic is off. In the early 1900s, most meat was locally produced. Their statistic comes from meat shipped. That skews the statistics.
“The data from the early 1900s, which is what McGovern and others used, are known to be especially poor. Among other things, these data accounted only for the meat, dairy, and other fresh foods shipped across state lines in those early years, so anything produced and eaten locally, such as meat from a cow or eggs from chickens, would not have been included.
And since farmers made up more than a quarter of all workers during these years, local foods must have amounted to quite a lot....
...The English novelist Anthony Trollope reported, during a trip to the United States in 1861, that Americans ate twice as much beef as did Englishmen. Charles Dickens, when he visited, wrote that “no breakfast was breakfast” without a T-bone steak. Apparently, starting a day on puffed wheat and low-fat milk—our “Breakfast of Champions!”—would not have been considered adequate even for a servant.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-americans-used-to-eat/371895/
LOL, Bruce Jenner ate Wheaties, look what happened....