Americans are eating less meat.

     I was glad to read Mark Bittman's article in the New York Times about meat consumption in America.  Americans have decreased their meat consumption by 12.2% from 2007 to 2012.  Beef consumption has been declining for 20 years.  Chicken consumption has had an even more dramatic decline over the past 5 years.  Pork consumption is also on the decline.  This is expected to continue.
     The big question is why this is happening.  The meat industry is blaming everyone, especially the government. 
     Mark Bittman questions that.  Our government:
          1.  subsidizes corn and soy for livestock feed
          2.  gives a nearly free pass on the meat industry's environmental degradation and animal abuse
          3.  is unwilling to meaningfully limit the use of antibiotics in animal feed
          4.  fails to curb the stifling hold meat-packers hold over small ranchers
          5.  refuses, despite scientific evidence, to advise Americans to eat less meat for better health.
     Nowhere does the report suggest that Americans are eating less meat by choice, that Americans are wising up and are trying to improve their health and that of the environment, and that they care about the horrible conditions in which animals are being raised and slaughtered. You have to question an industry that not only has zero transparency, but has pressured the government to make it illegal to photograph and show the public what is happening behind those closed and locked doors.
     I have more faith in the American people than that.  Americans are waking up, wising up, and taking charge of their health and that of their children and their planet.

http://hpjmh.com/2012/01/13/americans-are-eating-less-meat-new-york-times/

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.     (Abraham Lincoln)

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health,
and are treated by the health industry which pays no attention to food.
                                                   (Wendell Berry)