Talk:List of countries by meat consumption

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Maybe this article's title should be "List of countries by meat consumption" to conform to the pattern of many other lists I saw in categories. I don't know how to change the title. If someone knows and agrees with this change, let's consider there to be a consensus and just make the change.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Duane-light (talk • contribs) 01:18, September 6, 2014‎

Fish?[edit]

Does the data in the table include fish consumption? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB10:866A:1F00:2085:CADB:F3C2:2761 (talk) 19:10, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, it clearly says animal flesh. Ambitus (talk) 19:36, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Australia ?[edit]

Is there any reason why Australia does not appear in this list ? I tried to check the supposed FAO source, and it seems to be a dead link.Lathamibird (talk) 12:25, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

I'd like to propose the merger of the lists "countries by meat consumtion" and "countries by meat consumption per capita". It seems a bit redundant to have two different pages for the same subject. Mursidae (talk) 18:50, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Looks like we have a WP:CONTENTFORK. The table for 2017 in one of the articles could easily be moved into the table for 2002 & 2009 in the other article. ~~

Data missleading?[edit]

I feel like the data used in this table is misleading as it is comparing different sources. I also don't understand the need for it to come from different sources unless i'm missing something?

For example if we look at the USA in 2009 using the OECD data cited in the 2017 calculation that gives a total of 95.91Kg/person rather than the 120.2Kg/person in the table. This makes comparison of the data a little meaningless in my opinion. Shouldn't all the data come from the same source & methodology to make for easy comparison of trends? The OECD data covers all the time periods listed so shouldn't that be used for consistency or am I missing something?

I came at this via looking at the New Zealand data which makes it seem as though meat consumption has almost halved between 2002 and 2017 however looking at the OECD data there is a downwards trend but it's nothing like as dramatic.

I added FAO data for 2017. When I compare the data from FAO with what is currently stated for 2002 and 2009 there are many inconsistencies probably due to FAO changing their methodology and population estimates from 2014 and adjusting for countries with a high proportion of exports I would suggest updating the table to use the current FAO and/or FAO-OECD data. Additionally, I would consider eliminating the small island territories such as the US virgin islands as there is no FAO data available for them(I suspect they were rolled into their parent nations at some point)Speediedits (talk) 12:48, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]