The line graph compares the weekly per capita consumption in terms of fish, chicken, beef and lamb in a single country in Europe from 1979 to 2004.
Overall, the consumption of chicken witnessed a significant increase throughout the period, whereas a reverse was true for the consumption of beef and lamp. By contrast, fish consumption remained relatively constant over the span of 25 years.
Despite a handful of large fluctuations, beef remained the most commonly consumed meat before 1989, averaged from 180 to 240 grams per person per week. It then decreased consistently to the lowest point of around 100 grams eventually. Starting the time-period at 150 grams, lamb became the second most consumed meat in the survey. However, consumptions went into a sharp decline, dropping from the second place to third in 2004 at roughly 70 grams.
Moving on to ‘chicken’, with a beginning point of slightly under the 1979’s levels of lamb, it then went up quickly, overtaking that for lamb in the next 2 years (170 grams). This consumption later surpassed the category for beef, despite witnessing fluctuations between 1989 and 1992, and continued to reach a peak over 250 grams in 2002. Meanwhile, fish had approximately 60 grams of consumption in 1979, after which it dropped negligibly before remaining relatively stable, hovering around 50 grams from this year onwards, making it by far the least consumed among others.