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  1. Sep 9, 2024 · In 2022, 35.5 pounds per person of corn products (flour and meal, hominy and grits, and food starch) were available for consumption in the United States, increasing steadily over the last five decades, according to ERS’s food availability data.

  2. U.S. Food System Factsheet. Americans enjoy a diverse abundance of low-cost food, spending a mere 11.2% of disposable income on food. 1 However, store prices do not reflect the external costs—economic, social, and environmental—that impact the sustainability of the food system.

  3. The most widely used and comprehensive data on food supply and consumption is published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This data is annually available and is updated by the FAO, extending back to 1961.

  4. Dec 13, 2016 · So how do Americans really eat, and how has that changed over time? We analyzed data from the USDA’s Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System, or FADS, to find out. (Specifically, we used food availability adjusted for waste, spoilage and other loss as a proxy for consumption.)

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    • American agriculture in 1922. sverdrupian/Reddit. Let's start with a bit of fun. This gorgeous map, found by Redditor Sverdrupian, was published by the meatpacking firm Armour and Company in 1922.
    • We have fewer people working in agriculture now. Vox. So this is a chart, not a map (that'll happen occasionally in this list).
    • And we keep losing farms. USDA. As farmers have been disappearing, so have farms. In this map, each red dot is 20 farms that are no more, and each blue dot represents 20 new farms.
    • But we keep growing more food. Vox. The story of the decline in farm labor and farms looks, at first glance, like the story of the decline in farming.
  5. The USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System (FADS) includes three distinct but related data series on food and nutrient availability for consumption: food availability data, loss-adjusted food availability data, and nutrient availability data.

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  7. May 11, 2015 · High-fructose corn syrup consumption has skyrocketed. Back in 1972 — right around the time that it was first introduced — we had 1.2 pounds per capita of the syrup available to us. Today, it ...

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