EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality
In other words: They have no clue and are just guessing. That (parts of) the EU may be following an entirely different trend is completely unimaginable.
My personal anecdotal evidence: Basically everyone I know who eats less beef does so because of pricing, wanting to adopt a healthier/different diet or because they don’t want to shut their eyes as much to what “meat production” means for a cow anymore. Then there’s the group who just goes along with that because they either don’t prepare meals themselves or so they’re not the only one not eating at least vegetarian. Not a single one of them does it because they “cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing”.
Ofc my anecdotal evidence isn’t saying anything about the entire EU either. I merely wanted to showcase how easy it would be to frame the entire thing completely differently.
Mine could have “updated” to Win11 but I turned to Linux. It was really easy to install and get running, I even had less (less, not none) problems with the printer driver than I had back on windows for whatever reason.
I know some specific programs do not have a Linux alternative (yet?) but if you’re not one of those who needs them going Linux let’s you give that PC of yours more lifetime. And even if you are you can just swap your old device to Linux to try stuff out with, since you need to get a new device for Win11 anyways… These devices are only junk if Windows is all you can think in.
We all can start running away as much as possible from Windows to force them to improve their crappy aspects, the big problem is to get enough people to start running.