Uruguayans consume 100 kilos of meat per person per year.

Uruguayans have reached the 100 kilos annual consumption of meat per person and broke the 2024 record, when the average was 98.800 kilos. The data corresponds to a report from the National Meat Institute (INAC), and accounts for a milestone in the country's consumption: while last year, the figure reached 98.800 kilos per person—in the sum of all types of meat—2025 reached 100 kilos. "It is important that Uruguay maintains high levels of consumption and that the population increasingly has access," celebrated the president of the institute, Gustavo Scayola. However, he analyzed the figure with nuances: "Perhaps when we talk about 100 kilos of protein per person, it is a good number to compare globally, but if we analyze it within the country where meat is our culture and where all our production is linked to meat, that number hides that there are people who do not have access to meat," he considered, and added that "the data we should celebrate is where there is not a single ...