So what is the "dominant" meat in the U.S. marketplace? That
probably depends on how you want to define dominant. Perspective
is such an important issue in so many things, isn't it?  In
terms of per capita disappearance/consumption on a boneless
equivalent basis, beef still maintains a narrow lead over
chicken in the United States (See Figure 1). That lead actually
grew slightly in 2006, and is forecast by the Livestock
Marketing Information Center in Denver to remain the same in
2007.  The trend for beef is flat while the trend for retail
weight chicken production, though it declined last year and may
do so this year, is still up. Note that retail weight pork
consumption has changed little for the past 20 years, meaning
that pork industry growth has been completely dependent upon
population growth and exports.  Boneless equivalent is probably
our best measure of what people actually eat since it leaves out
much of the "waste" that we see in meat products. The figure is
still based on the residual of producti