[cheese_goddess]

> Different names will used if need be and consumers will continue the trend of reducing their meat consumption for environmental, health, or ethical reasons.

Consumers are not reducing their meat consumption. Instead meat consumption is increasing:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?ta...

> As a global average, per capita meat consumption has increased approximately 20 kilograms since 1961; the average person consumed around 43 kilograms of meat in 2014. This increase in per capita meat trends means total meat production has been growing at a much faster than the rate of population growth.

As is production:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?ta...

Worldwide.

[markstos]

You are right. I was thinking of the decline in dairy consumption in the US, which has been decreasing. Per-capita cow's milk consumption has been decreasing for 70 years here:

https://ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/102447/err-300_sum...

Meat consumption in the US in fact growing at an alarming rate: https://sentientmedia.org/meat-consumption-in-the-us