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"Oktoberfest — the annual two-week festival in Munich, Germany, that attracts
some 6 million attendees a year — originally began in 1810 as the gaudy
celebration of a royal marriage. Today, it’s primarily a good reason for
visitors to drink about 2 million gallons of beer while eating nearly half a
million roast chickens and over 400,000 sausages.
Once Oktoberfest is done, Germans will keep drinking beer; Germany, after all,
ranks sixth in the world in per capita alcohol consumption. But the decadent
displays of meat at Oktoberfest aren’t necessarily indicative of Germans’
year-round eating habits. In fact, Germany is one of the few places in the
world where meat consumption is decreasing — and fast.
In 2011, Germans ate 138 pounds of meat each year. Today, it’s 121 pounds — a
12.3 percent decline. And much of that decline took place in the last few
years, a time period when grocery sales of plant-based food nearly doubled."
Via
Future Crunch Aug 5, 2022:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
