Tyson CEO Expects U.S. Protein Consumption to Continue Decline The COO of Tyson Foods, today told attendees at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Global Agriculture Conference that the amount of animal protein available to U.S. consumers will decline for the foreseeable future. According to Jim Lochner, U.S. per capita consumption of protein has declined by 11 percent since its high in 2006.Mr. Lochner, consumption has fallen because there is less available to consume. That partly is because of strong export growth for pork and poultry meat. It also is due to the fact that less meat being produced because sharply higher feed ingredient prices negatively affects livestock and poultry producers' profitability. He intimated that as meat...

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