A new study released by Veganuary shows that red meat sales in the U.K. plummeted during the first six months of 2019 as more people turned to plant-based diets.
The U.K.-based non-profit encourages people to adopt a vegan diet during the month of January and beyond. With over 800,000 participants, Veganuary helped save over 3.6 million animals from slaughter in the first six months of 2019.
In another study, Nielsen, an American data and measurement firm, showed that red meat sales decreased by about 185 million pounds last year. Sales for beef and pork dropped 4% and 6.4%, while meatless options skyrocketed by 18%.
“2019 has seen a rise in meat-free and free-from categories,” said Nielsen’s Head of Retailer and Business Insight, Mike Watkins, “as consumers become more health and environmentally conscious, and veganism hits the mainstream.”
A vast and growing amount of evidence suggests that a plant-based diet is healthier and less harmful to the environment than its animal-based counterpart. The Mayo Clinic and the American Dietetic Association have cited the numerous benefits of a vegan diet, which include decreasing blood pressure, cholesterol, and the chance of cardiovascular and chronic heart disease.
Animal welfare is another factor in peoples’ decisions to embrace a plant-based diet, as millions of animals are exploited, abused, and killed every year for human consumption. Newborn chicks are debeaked to prevent cannibalism and feed wastage. Young male calves are stolen from their mothers. Starved and dehydrated, they are eventually slaughtered to sustain the veal market. Pigs endure tail docking and tooth clipping before their throats are sliced. As more of this barbaric animal cruelty is released to the public, consumers are opting out.
Embracing a plant-based diet positively impacts our health, the world in which we live, and the animals we share it with. If you’re considering making the switch this year, check out our vegan starter guide.
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Good news!
Wonderful. Wonderful. More plants on plates. Lees animals.
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we all need to go vegan to stop this daily torture
Fabulous news!!! Let’s hope everyone elsewhere does the same.
Way to go, UK! I‘m so proud of you for your dedication to the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. Besides it being more healthy, you will be saving thousands of animal lives.
This is great
GREAT NEWS — let’s keep this going!
PURE AWESOMENESS…THANK YOU
Just horrible. Humans are the cruelest and most vicious animal. Unless caught, this sub human will destroy more animals. Make me very sad for these poor birds. 🙁
great!
So glad to hear that meat consumption is down. Go vegan and stop supporting the cruel torturous and evil factory farms. It will do wonders for your body and for your head as well, knowing that you’re not participating in the death of beautiful animals.
As far as I know a lot of meat is now Halal meat which a lot of people wont to eat I for one is one of them the only way to make sure is to stop eating meat, I live in Luton and we dont have many butchers it’s all Asians owned and I just dont trust supermarkets not to sell Halal it’s not labeled as such I would rather give up meat then to eat Halal why should this be falsed on us to eat!!
What did you say??????? Does anyone have any idea what she said??
Totally weird. As for all Asian market, make sure that you don’t eat dog or cat meat.
Bravo.
Hopefully they aren’t switching to eating birds and fishes instead, which would be even worse.
Red meat consumption is on a rise in the United States for VERY peculiar reasons.
I truly hope that UK will become a MODEL for the entire world.
Thank you UK. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.
Ronald: I’d bet the US increase it’s due to the “carnivore” and “grass fed” diet trends cooked up by animal ag interests and all these phony ex-“vegans” scaring people away from being vegan with their tales of horror from when they were apparently imprisoned by the vegan cult. “But they escaped, thank God! And they’re working at repairing their health and lives.” Such a load of nasty lies they have to employ to fight veganism.