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222 pounds

The USDA estimates Americans will consume an average of 222 pounds of red meat and poultry in 2018. Great job everybody, that’s a new high. [Quartz]

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22 million

New Jersey is increasingly become the food capital of the United States, with nearly 2,000 food businesses set up there and 190 food companies’ corporate headquarters in the garden state. The reason why is location. There are 22 million consumers within a two-hour drive, on top of the biggest port in the world and multiple airports, and with something as time sensitive as food, that counts. [Public Radio International]

87 million

Number of rotisserie chickens sold by Costco in 2017. The business of prepared birds has been a booming one since the products introduction in the mid-nineties. Cheap birds (Costco sells a cooked rotisserie chicken for $4.99) mean customers shell out for sides that bring in higher margins. Indeed, the rotisserie concept kickstarted a whole bunch of prepared-food supermarket trends. [The Wall Street Journal]

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