Kirk Johnson, Plains Giants Establishing Tiny Foothold on Tables. New York Times, Jan 23, 2011 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/us/23buffalo.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=buffalo&st=cse
("The average American ate about 65 pounds of beef last year but not even a Quarter Pounder’s worth of bison, according to the Bison Association")
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(a) To the quotation, I may add that Americans nowadays eat nearly 16 pounds of seafood a year.
(b) American bison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison
(Linnaean nomenclature: Bison bison; sextion 1 Name)
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