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https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consu...

Seafood consumption is far higher than meat-- good luck to these folks, it could be highly profitable.

Update:

Worldwide meat consumption (first graph): 317,000,000 tonnes.

Worldwide seafood consumption (later down): 154,850 kilotonnes, or 154,850,000 tonnes.

Seafood is roughly half of meat. That's still a large market.



That does not seem right. According to https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/st... beef/pork/chicken consumption is much higher than fish.


Your source is based on USDA data, which I assume is per capita US consumption. Meat and seafood consumption are quite different in other parts of the world.


You’re not going to sell this to a fisherman in Papua New Guinea who live off $1 a day...


If it's cheaper than the price of fish (which I think is the long term aim of Beyond Meat et. al.), you will definitely sell the poor and lower middle class. Meats and seafood are more expensive parts of a diet.

It's better for the environment (smaller carbon footprint), it's more ethical, and it's cheaper -- if the manufacturing of meatless and seafoodless substitutes can achieve this at scale.




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