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To answer this question is impossible. The middle ages covers a 1000 years of history and most people who could afford to do so ate meat.

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Only the rich or the people that farm meat could eat it.

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Most people were farmers, and most of the farmers had swine and poultry. They usually did not eat beef, but that was most often because they could get money selling cattle rather than slaughtering them for themselves.

Some poor people who were not farmers were unable to get meat and had to get most of their protein from eggs. These people were a small minority of the population, however because about 80% of the secular population were farmers.

People in monastic communities were usually able to eat meat. Many poor people went to monastic communities as they got older.

Clearly, rich people, members of the nobility, and royalty normally did not have trouble getting meat.

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