The chart elucidates the average consumption across 4 different types of meat: beef, pork, broilers, and turkey in America from 1955 to 2012.
Overall, it is clear that the use of broilers and turkey exhibited an upward trend, while the opposite was true for the remaining meat. A comparison of four kinds of meat reveals that the consumption of beef was higher than others, with an exception between 2009 and 2012.
In terms of beef and pork consumption, the figures for them were relatively greater than those of broilers and turkey for most of the period, except from 1994 to 2012. Starting at 60 pounds in 1955, the figure for beef consumption reached the highest point of the chart in 1976, at 90 pounds, before witnessing a moderate decline of around 40 pounds in the subsequent years. This closely resembled the use of pork, which witnessed a minimal decrease of approximately 8 pounds throughout the period.
Concerning the consumption of broilers and turkey, it is apparent that both of these figures experienced an escalation, but to varying extents. From 1961 to 2012, there was a sharp increase in the use of broilers, from merely 18 pounds to around 58 pounds, whereas in the same period, there was only a gradual growth of just 6 pounds in the figure for turkey.