{"id":639,"date":"2012-04-30T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:45:31","slug":"worlds-biggest-meat-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Biggest Meat-Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that America has been falling behind. \u00c2\u00a0Economics, manufacturing, science and math education&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0all categories in which other countries of the world have started to lap us. \u00c2\u00a0But the title of biggest meat-eater is one to which I expected America to hold strong. \u00c2\u00a0So I was shocked when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2012\/04\/daily-chart-17\">learned in the Economist<\/a> that Luxembourg holds the number one meat spot. \u00c2\u00a0I mean, sure the U.S. wins in absolute tons of meat consumed, but that small European country manages to beat us in consumption per person. \u00c2\u00a0(I do take solace in the fact the if &#8220;world&#8217;s biggest meat-eaters&#8221; were measured in girth or weight of the consumer, the U.S. would again take the top spot.)<\/p>\n<p>We all need to do our part to restore America&#8217;s greatness. \u00c2\u00a0While I&#8217;m certain that this is to become a central issue of the 2012 presidential campaign, I&#8217;m asking my fellow Americans to not wait for a government solution to the problem. \u00c2\u00a0When you&#8217;re staring down the choice between salad and sandwich choose sandwich, choose for freedom, and, for our children and our children&#8217;s children, <a title=\"A special treat courtesy of our friends at the Meat Council\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=406\">chose meat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Worlds-Biggest-Meat-Eaters.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-640 alignnone\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"World's Biggest Meat-Eaters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Worlds-Biggest-Meat-Eaters.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Worlds-Biggest-Meat-Eaters.png 595w, http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Worlds-Biggest-Meat-Eaters-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that America has been falling behind. \u00c2\u00a0Economics, manufacturing, science and math education&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0all categories in which other countries of the world have started to lap us. \u00c2\u00a0But the title of biggest meat-eater is one to which I expected America to hold strong. \u00c2\u00a0So I was shocked when I learned in the Economist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,135],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-funny","tag-meat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}