Countries that Eat the Most Meat

Yeah, Iceland surprised me too. I guess they export all of the fish they catch.

@divantilya if that was the case they would be much lower on this list. It isnt about "produced" meat and fish, but about consumed, so produced+imporg-export

Unless you meant you expected the consumption to be higher.

There is a problem with your source, the FAO Yearbook, Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics does not mention meat consumption. Also it is very unclear whether you include fish or not. Because if you don't there is no chance Iceland and Maldives make it to the top, considering it's two countries where meat costs a lot and the cuisine is based on sea products. A quick internet search would quickly show you that all those numbers are wrong.

And those countries are very high up on the fish-eating quiz!

Living in the Maldives, I came to think of myself as abstaining, since I only ate tuna twice a day.

Thanks for the page number. It confirms that fish protein are included in animal protein, hence this does not correspond to meat consuption. Meat consumption is usually measured with per capita meat carcass mass availability. So this Quizz should be named "Countries that Consumes the Most Animal Protein".

I eliminated almost all islands from my response because the quiz said "meat". Now that you've added the caveat that fish is included, it seems that your premise is incorrect. All of the Caribbean islands consume fish in great quantities, yet they are not on this quiz.

Fish is meat, I find it so weird that people assume vegetarians do eat fish because they think it is not meat. It is always, so you do eat fish? Or dishes on menu's labeled vegetarian, but all of them have fish in it..

It has skin, muscles, vains... so it is meat (and eyes and brains and a nerve system, so it is an animal)

I do agree that it is usefull to add it here, since we are used to distinguish them and not lump them together. But fish arent made of fairy dust...

Maybe it hails back from the time that during lent it was forbidden to eat meat from animals, but fish was permitted, since they were considered a different kind of meat. But then, they started to make all sorts of exceptions, to still be able to eat meat, several animals with aquatic habits like beaver were classified as fish, for the purpose they could still be eaten during lent.

(and the list is longer than I realised here are some listed capybara, alligator, armadillo, the thick-nosed tapir, and the manatee, beaver, puffin, skunk-headed-coot. All considered fish..)

It is not a Catholic quiz, so fish is definitely meat.

The dispute over whether or not fish should be considered a meat is not so clear cut, not even to non-Catholics. "When trying to find the definition of meat in the dictionary, there are no clear answers. While dictionaries such as Oxford's define meat as 'the edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry', others such as Webster's define it as 'the flesh of animals (including fish, birds, and snails) used as food'. Meanwhile, nutrition scientists are also divided, with some saying that meat only comes from mammals, while others say that only red meat can truly be considered as meat. In culinary and butchery terms, meat is considered only to come from mammals, and any edible fish or bird comes under a different category. This basic definition is followed by most governments to regulate food items in the country."

not clear cut, are you serious? Reminds me of the countless times on this website I have seen people claiming a bee (and other insects) are not animals, (and maybe even birds?? or was it reptiles, but not too sure about that because that sounds even weirder)

They have all the same qualifications as meat from mammals have, veins, muscles etc. But even besides composition. It is meat because it is what the animal s made of and YES fish are animals.

I agree the meats differ. But there is no reason whatsoever to thinking it isnt meat. In culinary, and therefore in every day speech, distinctions are made, because it has different nutritional values and is cooked differently. But that does not suddenly make it not meat.

I really can not see how someone can say it is not meat. There is a distinction between the two yes. But saying it is not meat makes as much sense as saying a bird is not an animal. It can fly while other animals cant, it has a beak, wings etc.

Tough one! I got 18/21 but the three I missed were in the top five.

Nice quiz Quizmaster, thanks.

Kind of amazed Uruguay doesn't make it. They beat even Argentina in beef consumption, but they mustn't eat much else besides.

Why? Eggs are just chicken menstruation

I'm disappointed by the Nordic countries. Thought we were more forward thinking than this. I get Iceland, because those poor, starving people they have to eat something on their barren rocks, but still...

Here’s some “forward thinking” for you: Humans are omnivores. Hope you’re enjoying your tofu!

What do they eat in Turkey then if not Turkey?

Anything but turkey, they’re not cannibals!

I got the Maldives with just 2 seconds on the clock. wow

Wow Holland, eat some vegetables once in awhile.

Would love to see this filled in on a map during the quiz. (So only shown after you type in a correct answer, not allready indicated)

Unexpected that all the countries in the northsea area besides the uk are on this.(norway, sweden, finland, denmark, germany, netherlands, belgium, ireland. And throw in iceland and luxembourgh)