Meat Consumption by Lee Xuan Ying
My project is about raising awareness on the issues of meat consumption. Meat is a very “inefficient” food source. It requires more energy, water and land to produce meat than any other food source. Meat production is also a large source of greenhouse gas emissions and thereby plays a major role in climate change.
Data
The data is taken from kaggle on meat consumption around the world. It is published in 2018, and it has attempted to project world’s meat consumption numbers in five different meat categories namely beef, veal, pig, poultry, and sheep projections till up to the year 2026. Meat consumption has been measured in thousand tons of carcass weight (except for poultry expressed as ready to cook weight) and in kilograms of retail weight per capital. The dataset has been further broken down for 10 countries, which are Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, United states of America.
Artefact
My artefact is inspired by a butcher’s menu. The first diagram is cut into four different parts, with four different types of meat. The combination of the four types of meat is organized based on their popularity from left to right, Pork, Poultry, Beef and Mutton respectively. I chose the most recognisable iconography of each animal the meat comes from, namely pig’s head, chicken’s feet, cow‘s udders and sheep legs. For the second diagram, I used the distinct shape of each cut of meat to create a graph showing 11 years of data on meat consumption.