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Cattle await slaughter at Tyson Foods beef processing plant in Amarillo, Texas. With four thousand workers and the capacity to butcher six thousand animals a day, the plant is one of the largest of its kind in the United States, which consumes more beef than any other nation (27 billion pounds in 2022), followed by China, the European Union, Brazil, and India. Each American, on average, eats nearly 60 pounds of beef annually, but recent research shows that fully half of the beef consumed in the country is eaten by just 12 percent of the population, mostly people aged fifty to sixty-five. Meat was considered such a crucial part of the American diet that in the spring of 2020 when the Covid pandemic was raging through processing plants like Tyson’s, the US government ordered them to stay open citing the Defense Production Act.

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Cattle await slaughter at Tyson Foods beef processing plant in Amarillo, Texas. With four thousand workers and the capacity to butcher six thousand animals a day, the plant is one of the largest of its kind in the United States, which consumes more beef than any other nation (27 billion pounds in 2022), followed by China, the European Union, Brazil, and India. Each American, on average, eats nearly 60 pounds of beef annually, but recent research shows that fully half of the beef consumed in the country is eaten by just 12 percent of the population, mostly people aged fifty to sixty-five. Meat was considered such a crucial part of the American diet that in the spring of 2020 when the Covid pandemic was raging through processing plants like Tyson’s, the US government ordered them to stay open citing the Defense Production Act.

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