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4. Various protests against the exploitation of chickens
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This year's per capita meat consumption will drop to its lowest level in nine years, and the 3% drop from last year represents the biggest decrease since at least 2000, according to United Nations data.

The change is happening in all major markets, including the US, where meat consumption per capita is predicted to not return to pre-pandemic levels until at least after 2025.

There are a number of factors that contribute to change. The economic consequences of the coronavirus mean that consumers are cutting grocery bills.

Restaurant closings have affected demand, as people eat more meat when dining out.

In Argentina, a country recognized in the world for its meat "65 percent of people say that they are leaving aside part of their consumption of beef and are starting to consume other types of food," said Adrián Bifaretti, head of Promotion Intern of the Institute for the Promotion of Argentine Beef (IPCVA).

According to the latest survey of the entity, the consumption of beef per inhabitant registered an interannual fall of 3.4% in June to 50.5 kg / year, the lowest of all the months of June since 2011.

Changes in eating habits can also influence the drop in meat consumption. According to the Unión Vegana Argentina (UVA) census, it is estimated that 9% of Argentines eat a vegetarian or vegan diet, which corresponds to more than four million people.

In Chile, according to figures provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, the sale of lentils, beans and chickpeas quadrupled during this period, and consumption per person is projected to reach 2.5 kilos this 2020.

The effects of the health crisis and veganism have fueled the consumption of lentils, chickpeas and beans.

In China, which accounts for about a quarter of world consumption, there is growing mistrust of animal products after the government suggested a link between imported protein and an outbreak in Beijing.

Argentine exports of bovine meat totaled 49 thousand tons in June, 17% less than in the previous month, due to lower Chinese demand, according to a report prepared by the Consortium of Exporters of Argentine Meat (ABC). .

At the end of last year, the average value of frozen meats exported to China reached almost US $ 5,700 per ton, while in June it barely exceeded US $ 3,800 per ton, 33 percent less, according to data from the Consortium of Meat Exporters Argentinas.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the pandemic that has plagued the world since the end of 2019, came from nature and not from a laboratory.

International movements, such as PETA, believe that human abuse of animals could trigger another pandemic.

"Cows are often forced to live in unsanitary and unpleasant conditions that increase their risk of infections that require antibiotics, which, in turn, increases the risk of having bacteria resistant to antibiotics," this organization publishes in its account of Twitter

This animal organization insists on a turn of helm that this sector must take to reinvent itself: close slaughterhouses and market vegan meat.

The Euromonitor firm reported that the global consumption of vegan and vegetarian products in 2016 was $ 51 billion, while the sale of healthy foods in 2017 amounted to $ 1 billion. Along the same lines, Acumen Research estimated that, by 2026, the size of this global market will be approximately US $ 24 trillion.

For its part, the National Academy of Sciences presented a study in which it estimates that if a significant group of people adopted a plant-based lifestyle, global mortality could be reduced by between 6% and 10%, while Gas emissions from Greenhouse Effect (GHG) would drop between 29% and 70%. These figures, among others, led the academy to conclude that the economic benefit of the massification of these lifestyles would be between US $ 1 trillion and US $ 31 trillion, equivalent to a range between 0.4% and 13% of the estimated world GDP. by 2050.