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Its an incredible statistic that fish is consumed more than cows, pigs, or beef. I don’t think I’ve been anywhere this is close to true. Where I am I think farmed salmon is at least 5x the price of chicken. Some countries must be hugely affecting the statistics. I wonder if there are poorer countries where people rarely eat meat but fish for subsistence?

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I live in Vietnam and I can believe it. Here's a map of the world showing where people eat fish. It is basically a list of places where Americans are unlikely to go.

https://imgur.com/Snc2PvR

Asia accounts for 71% of world fish consumption. In places like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia fish makes up over 50% of all animal protein consumed.

Unless you've travelled widely in Asia, especially outside of the rich up & coming cities with restaurants catering to foreign tourist palates and ate in local places, it would make sense that you haven't seen it.

Thats an interesting map, I did not realize that fish was such a big source of protein in those countries, although even at 10gr/day its not a huge component of the diet so overall animal protein must be low.

I was curious, so I looked it up -- it seems like fish is about 25% protein by volume at most, so that's ~40g or 1.4oz; definitely not a ton.

Pigs (and farmed fish, and probably other species) are also fed fish on very large scale. I wonder if that's included in that statistic?

When I lived in Spain I could get a Tuna steak as long as my forearm from the local pescadería for €2. In the UK that would have cost me €15-20. However I live on the "Tuna Coast" at the time and was obviosly abundant.

It depends where you are.

I'm from a coastal state in India (Kerala), and although non-fish meat is also quite popular here, majority eat fish almost daily (often with rice).

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