Types of Cuts of Meat. While many people typically enjoy the flavors of many different types of meat, they donât always know the differences between cuts of meat. This information can be very useful when buying and preparing meat, because the meat cuts are from specific areas of the animalâs body.
ERS food availability data suggest that Americans have been consuming less fluid milk since the 1940s. Data on per capita consumption since the 1970s (USDA-ERS, 2013a) 4 reveal a decrease in average consumption from about 0.96 cups to about 0.61 cups of fluid milk per day over the past 40 years (fig. 1).
1 In the last three decades, world milk production has increased by more than 50 percent, from 482 million tonnes in 1982 to 754 million tonnes in 2012. 2  India is the worldâs largest milk producer, with 16 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan and Brazil.