BACKGROUND The global average per capita consumption of meat and the total amount of
meat consumed are rising (see the figure), driven by increasing average individual incomes …

The food consumer plays an increasingly prominent role in shaping the food and farming
system. A better understanding of how public policies affect consumer choice and how those …

1622 urbanization; it has more than doubled during the past generation (3). If the world's
population today were to eat a Western diet of roughly 80 kg meat per capita per year, the …

The world's food systems and environments have been changing dramatically, concomitant
with changes in over-and undernutrition. We elaborate the science of food choice to better …

A blend of many factors, ranging from bioloiical to anthropologic, interact in complex and
changing ways to influence the development and maintenance of food choices …

Understanding the psychology of how people make decisions can shed light on important
factors contributing to the cause and maintenance of public health problems like obesity …

Meat represents an important source of high-quality dietary protein for a large proportion of
the global population. In addition, red meat, in particular, significantly contributes to the …

Dietary and physical activity behaviors that affect health are influenced by a wide variety of
forces; changes in these behaviors require interventions and commitment to action at …

Meat consumption patterns worldwide have dramatically changed over the past 50 years,
putting pressure on the environment and leading–especially in industrialised and emerging …

Humans evolved as omnivores and it has been proposed that cooking meat allowed for
evolution of larger brains that has led to our success as a species. Meat is one of the most …