For many American families, putting dinner on the table no longer involves carving a roast beef, stuffing a chicken or trussing a pork loin.
Consumers are buying less meat overall, and for the first time they are using meat more as an ingredient than as the focus of the meal, new industry research indicates.
It’s a shift that is reshaping supermarket meat departments and opening new business opportunities in the meat industry as shoppers focus their purchases on cuts and products that take less work and time to prepare.
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