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NEW - Fewer Mouths to Feed Means Smaller Steaks, Same Price
Populations are shrinking. Appetites are shrinking too, thanks to GLP-1 drugs. Food Professor Dr. Sylvain Charlebois lays out what happens when an entire industry built on more people eating more food suddenly has neither.
Charlebois walks through the workaround already forming: smaller portions marketed as premium, priced the same as what they replaced. A four-ounce steak sized for someone on a weight loss drug, sold at what a full steak used to cost, is one version of where this goes if the industry defaults to old habits instead of rethinking who it's actually feeding.
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