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For more than a thousand years, the Catholic Church required its members to abstain from meat on Fridays. Catholics customarily ate fish on Friday. After 1966 abstinence from meat on Fridays was no longer required. Consequently, the
a. demand curve for fish shifted to the right.
b. demand curve for fish shifted to the left.
c. demand for meat decreased.
d. price of fish increased

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Answer:

Option (b) is correct.

Explanation:

Before 1966, Catholics were restricted from consuming meat on Fridays and they ate fish on Fridays. But after 1966, there were no such restrictions are there and they are free to eat meat on Fridays, now Catholics also consume meat on Fridays.

This will result in an increase in the demand for meat and demand for fish decreases. So, this will shift the demand curve of fish leftwards and demand curve of meat rightwards.

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