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Meat Calculator: How Much Meat Do You Need?Joyce Henry
How Much Meat Do You Need?
Use calculator to help determine how much meat to buy.
- Select your meat type
- Adjust how many diners you’ll have
- Our recommendation will display just above your entries
A question we often get is “How much meat do I need?” The starting rule of thumb is:
- Boneless Meat: 1/2 lb. per person for adults and 1/4 lb. per person for children.
- Bone-In Meat: 1 lb. person for adults and 1/2 lb. per person for children.
Then adjust for your situation.
- Are you feeding any seniors or teenagers?
- Do you want leftovers?
- Do you have any other main dish items?
A Nation Of Meat Eaters: See How It All Adds Up : The Salt Americans eat more meat than almost anyone else in the world, but habits are starting to change. We explore some of the meat trends and changes in graphs and charts.
Meat Week
A Nation Of Meat Eaters: See How It All Adds Up
As Allison Aubrey and Dan Charles reported today on Morning Edition, meat has more of an impact on the environment than any other food we eat. That's because livestock require so much more food, water, land, and energy than plants to raise and transport. (Listen to the audio above for their conversation with Morning Edition's Linda Wertheimer.)
Take a look here at what goes into just one quarter-pound of hamburger meat.
What It Takes To Make A Quarter-Pound Hamburger
And that's not even including the animal's waste or the methane emissions from its digestion.
But there are fewer cows around than there were in the 1970s.
Cattle inventory, in millions
In the meantime, though, farmers and scientists have found ways to get more meat out of every cow. So even though cattle inventory has dropped, the U.S. is still producing more beef now than in the 1970s.
Average dressed weight of cattle (what's used for meat), in pounds
And if you look at the past century, meat consumption overall in the U.S. has risen dramatically. It's only in the past few years that it has begun to drop a bit.
U.S. total meat consumption, in billion pounds
Though meat consumption in the U.S. has dropped off slightly in recent years, at 270.7 pounds per person a year, we still eat more meat per person here than in almost any other country on the planet. Only the Luxumbourgers eat more meat than we do.
As U.S. beef consumption began to decline in the 1970s, poultry began to rise quickly. A couple of years ago, chicken surpassed beef as our No. 1 meat of choice. Our consumption of pork has also risen slightly over the years.
U.S. meat consumption per person, in pounds
Correction June 27, 2012
In an earlier version of the infographic "What It Takes To Make A Hamburger," we said that 1,036 Btu of fossil fuel energy is enough to power a microwave for 12 hours. In fact, 1,036 Btu can power a microwave for 18 minutes.