Comment by Aurornis

> Drying doesn't mean anything... The nutrients are still there you're only really losing water.

The problem with the number is that people see it and imagine pounds of meat like they see at the grocery store, but it's measuring pounds of meat that go into the meat processing plant.

> What evidence do you have that the loss adjusted numbers have gone down while the preprocessed numbers have gone up so dramatically?

No, the two numbers show the ratio.

The "pounds of meat consumed per person" from the FAO is a pre-processed weight.

The pounds of meat consumed per person from the USDA is the end-user weight. It's about half of the FAO number.