{
  "id": 4912005,
  "title": "Poles eating more meat but drinking less alcohol",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/poles-eating-more-meat-but-drinking-less-alcohol",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T18:12:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Notes from Poland",
    "slug": "notes-from-poland",
    "url": "https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/01/poles-eating-more-meat-but-drinking-less-alcohol/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Recent data from Statistics Poland (GUS) indicates that Poles are consuming more meat, with an average of 82 kilograms per person in 2025, which is a 7.5% increase from the previous year and a 15.7% rise since 2015. This trend is part of a long-term pattern, with meat consumption growing by 22.7% since 2005. Concurrently, alcohol consumption has been declining, with the average Pole drinking 81.7 litres of beer in 2025, a 4.9% decrease from the previous year and an 18.7% drop since 2018. Spirits and liqueurs consumption also fell by 5.9% year-on-year in 2025. Despite these changes, alcohol consumption remains higher than it was two decades ago, with a 28% increase in spirits consumption and a 1.2% rise in beer consumption compared to 2005.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}