Dive Summary:

• At more than 270 pounds annually, Americans eat more meat than almost any other country in the world, but that number has been on the decline for about a decade.
• Last year, however, retail sales of meat jumped a whopping 17% to $85 billion, bolstered by ever rising prices.
• Analysts are still unsure of these recent trends, wondering if the decline in consumption has an end even as the population grows. 

From the article:

“Meat consumption in the US has been on the decline for nearly a decade. Volume sales through these outlets (supermarkets, drug stores, and mass merchandisers) in millions of pounds have gone down overall from 2008 to 2012 with decreases in all but two of the meat categories and in one of the two poultry categories.” ...