Sale of sausage plummets in Britain, edged off the dining table by chicken and steak

Sausages have been favorites on the dining tables and barbecues for ages but, have not fallen out of favor of shoppers because they are going in for other healthier options like chicken and steak.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 21 July 2015.

Sale of sausages have plunged by more than two billion a year, that works out to the equivalent to 260.7million fewer packs being taken off the shelves. That is a reduction of more than a quarter compared to 2008.
Consumers have switched over to chicken and steak because they have become more aware of the fact that sausages fuel the obesity epidemic.
In Britain, the sales of beef, especially steak, have gone up by £1billion to £3billion – or 50 per cent – since 2008. Simultaneously, the demand for fresh chicken has pushed up its sales by nearly half since 2012 to £2billion.
The decline of the sausage, most of which are pork based, is a major twist in the nation’s culinary history because it is one of Britain’s oldest processed foods and had arrived with the Romans.
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