From Affluence to Processed Food: Evolution of Meat Consumption in Spain since the Second Half of the 20th Century

Pablo Perea

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Abstract: We use Spain as a study case in order to analyse the evolution of meat consumption from the second half of the twentieth century until today. To do this, we built a database of meat consumption using all possible sources: FAO, Ministry Food Balance, Household Budget Surveys and Food Consumption Panel. There are two main contributions. First, we disagree with the idea that the consumption of meat in Spain has been growing steadily since the fifties, as some economic historians have previously reported. Second, we observe two different food consumption models. One characterized by the increase in standardized meat consumption and the other featured by the decrease in meat consumption as well as the rise in the consumption of processed and elaborated meat.

Keywords: nutritional transition; meat; Spain; consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N34 N54 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 page
Date: 2022-05
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