Interesting that the article thinks 50 to 65 is the boomer generation. Poor Gen X will be forgotten until they are no more.
I’m definitely represented in this article. I basically don’t buy beef anymore despite being raised with it was the centerpiece of my diet.
I’ve learned to embrace plant-based alternatives generally find them as enjoyable if not more so than beef.
I don’t mind being forgotten, but I mind being lumped with the boomers.
Damn boomers can’t even keep to their own generation
Amen brother.
I think of Gen X as people born in the 70s or late 60s, so that age range is pretty much split between X and Boomers imo. They also mention later on that both generations are responsible for similar rates of meat consumption
Can confirm. I’m Gen X and we buy beef by the cow from local farmers.
Best way to do it imo
That’s totally fair and it’s a great article, it just made me laugh. Thanks for sharing.
I think both points still stand! Boomers go to the mid sixties which means the upper range of 50 to 65 covers boomers. However, the bottom range is definitely Gen X and the authors forgot you!
Having made the mistake of forgetting Gen X in a comment the other day my eyes have been opened.
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The article says
aged 50 to 65—roughly correlating with the baby boomer generation
My phrasing does seem a bit awkward. I was trying to say “the article uses the age range 50 to 65 and Boomers fall into the upper half of that age range. Gen X is solidly the bottom half of that age range.”
Baby boom began in 1945, after the war when the troops came home.
The oldest of the baby boom are almost 80.
Not sure how the article did the math, but…
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Boomers/Old GenX still act like Millennial, a generation in their 30s and 40s, is a word for children or young adults.
Great, it’s terrible for the environment and fairly insane animal welfare-wise. So it’s cool that we can just stop doing that. The business already doesn’t make economic sense and has been heavily subsidized in various ways by the government for decades. I thought capitalists loved the theory of supply and demand?
*Heavily subsidized by taxpayers
I’ve found a lot of people in my generation (Millennial) don’t eat red meat, not because they don’t want to but because they can’t. It gives me incredible heartburn, and many of my friends become physically ill if they eat it.
Wasn’t there a disease going around that made people sick when eating red meat?
It’s from a tick bite, not something we can spread to one another.
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are you suggesting tick-born illness has been weaponized by…? what, the soy milk mafia?
do you have any idea how staggeringly, mind-numbingly stupid that sounds?
Not OP, but since it is feasible, it sounds like it would make a decent movie. I’m thinking something like Red Dawn or an eco-terrorist plot.
Are… you stoned? I do have to admit I thought about how vegans would love an airborne version. I read too much science fiction.
People would just move to poultry, which I suspect would be worse to ethical vegans.
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Tick bites can cause it. Something about your body building immunity to a protein transferred by the tick that closely matches those found in beef or something like that.
There’s a kind of tick that, once it bites you, causes you to be deathly allergic to red meat from that point forward.
Not always! Last I heard, it can and does wear off. Might take 6-months, might take years. I gather the effect is so rare we don’t have a ton of data.
But I’m often full of shit! Look it up yourself.
You are probably full of shit every day. Until you visit the loo. So don’t hold it against yourself!
For a non-tick response- Prion contamination resulting in Mad Cow Disease. One meal and your brain eventually rots in moldy cheese.
Yep, there is, it spreads though tic bites, and once bitten you will allways get sick after eating red meat.
Alpha-gal syndrome. It’s not that common that it will affect entire populations.
Alpha gal syndrome sounds like a compliment
Millennial here and I’ve had a similar experience. I ate a ton of red meat growing up, but once I got to my early-to-mid 30s, I noticed beef would give me a lot of stomach issues. I switched to eating chicken and sometimes (depending on the dish) substituting the meat entirely for black beans and found my stomach issues got a lot better. And it’s still just as tasty to me, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.
I’ll usually find that burgers/steaks etc at restaurants are what usually bother me more than if i go and buy/season/cook myself. Not sure if it’s just over seasoned meat, or the type/quality. Even then, I usually prefer chicken or turkey-based (lower fat) alternatives or mixes (like a turkey ground chuck).
I haven’t really gotten into plant-based alternatives, though I’m not opposed to it…as long as it tastes good! Lol
The two go hand in hand. Food service-grade ingredients are notoriously bad and cheap. They then compensate for this by heavily seasoning it so you don’t notice how bad it is. In the rare case that a restaurant uses high quality ingredients (e.g. serving prime rib), they are unlikely to season it as heavily.
When I had Celiac undiagnosed, all I could figure out was that I felt awful after meals. My theory was I needed to eat more healthy. I started eating whole and organic foods, which didn’t help, then became a vegetarian, which didn’t help (and some people sure were dicks about it). But yeah, anything that leads to eating more veggies and fiber can help with certain digestive issues and overall health.
I don’t get heartburn, but I also don’t poop for a few days.
I don’t not eat beef/meat, but I also don’t really eat it either.
Only in the Northern hemisphere. Current industry trends indicate some major meat-craving markets gearing up as we speak (e.g., Brazil). Likely a growing demand continues far into the future right now, even if some developed nations are seeing the pendulum swing the other way.
The problems of meat production on the climate are NOT going to go away on their own.
China is also driving a lot of the global growth in beef consumption. Any recently industrialized country really
Just in time for alt-meats to become cost-comparable and palatable enough to compete I’m genX, voting with my dollars for that, despite beef being so delicious
The only reason plant based meats haven’t been way cheaper than animal meat the entire time is because of how heavily subsidized the animal agriculture industry is. Without the government literally single handedly propping up the industry it wouldn’t be a viable way to make money.
I used to eat a LOT of red meat, but I have started getting bored with it.
So now, I am eating more chicken, and most of the red meat I still buy comes from a nice farm shop, I realize it is a luxury, but I can afford it and it is tastier than store bought meat.
I have stopped eating as much beef mostly for economical reasons. I used to eat steak since I loved it and its easy to cook. However, its now way too expensive to buy casually. I love a good steak at a restaurant so that is mostly the only time I eat it now. That it is bad for my health and the environment are mostly secondary.
If you mean to cook at home, I’ve done well by not caring about the cut and buying whatever is one sale. Not like, old and discounted, but often the stores near me have sales when they have a lot of something or who knows. I bought a 2.2 lb roast for $9 the other day for instance, which is enough for me to eat for days and is even cheaper than ground beef.
It’s worthwhile if it’s on sale. Just got to find the right time. Hard to plan around it since you never know when it’s cheap enough.
Roasts I might start doing more than steaks. Since steaks never go on sale near me
We buy beef like twice a month. Just trying to maintain a healthier diet.
Self reducing demographic
I guess beef isn’t what’s for dinner.
This is ludicrous, especially in the US. Demand has skyrocketted, processing is at all time highs, and prices are reflecting this.
I think someone is smelling their own farts.
Demand is up because population is up. Per capita consumption is down, per the article that part doesn’t seem to be disputed
