I believe it. I’m not American but Canadian (our diets tend to be similar) and before I became vegetarian I literally had never once eaten lamb, and turkey was only a Easter / Thanksgiving / Christmas meal. Keep in mind the number probably isn’t 0 but close to it, it’s just hard to see on the graph.
Woah, looks like chickens were our friends until the 1940s when people started eating the friends
The 1940-1950 era is the rough timeframe when the factory farming of poultry took off, especially once antibiotics started being widely used to group even more chickens together in those factory conditions. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_the_United_States_poultry_farming_industry#History_of_federal_policy_on_antibiotic_use_in_livestock
There’s a number of factors, including a concerted effort by the USDA to drive chicken consumption.
The Search Engine podcast did a two part episode about chicken bones that discusses the rise of chicken as a food product: https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/why-are-there-so-many-chicken-bones
Lamb is at 0 lbs/y? I find that and turkey to be suspiciously low
I believe it. I’m not American but Canadian (our diets tend to be similar) and before I became vegetarian I literally had never once eaten lamb, and turkey was only a Easter / Thanksgiving / Christmas meal. Keep in mind the number probably isn’t 0 but close to it, it’s just hard to see on the graph.
I had to reread your comment like 5 times because I kept reading “chickpeas” instead of “chickens”