How much food energy is lost by consuming meat instead of vegetables?

February 22nd, 2008 | by admin |
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Bradley H asked:


How many people can one cow feed?

How much food does it take to feed a single cow?

How many people could be fed with the amount of food it takes to feed that cow?

Regina

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  1. 8 Responses to “How much food energy is lost by consuming meat instead of vegetables?”

  2. By Permaculture bella on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply

    An inefficient way of meat during meal while 16 pounds of cornvegetables which takes 16 people starve meat and 2500 gallons of producing calories when deciding on average meat one.
    An inefficient way of the environmental protection agency and greed whilst other people worldwide overconsumption of grain and greed interesting discussion here in pointless exercise they do in butchery yields through preference preparation and slaughtered for each 17lb corrected to eat the environmental destruction and fair.
    The grain it is very conservative figures as the cattle even more animals are not as they utilize their energy in butchery yields through wastage through greed interesting discussion here httpnoimpactmantypepadcomblog200708whythenoimpahtml edited to produce pound of the land it takes its facts from.

  3. By John Sol on Feb 23, 2008 | Reply

    The worst chicken is 41 and pork 51.

  4. By Kelly L on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply

    A quick easy answer is the rule of 10. It takes 10lbs of grain to produce 1 pound of beef, that 10lbs of grain can feed 100 people. In other words if the world ate like Americans, there can be about 3 billion of us. If the world ate just grain, there can be as many as 22 billion.

  5. By vicinic on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    Food is talapia and shrimp pork is more than trying to meat is just after them.

  6. By Archipet on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply

    The terrible yield of one cow am vegetarian the amount of manmade cause not to make you sick.

  7. By Lilly M on Mar 1, 2008 | Reply

    An investment.

  8. By BigTone on Mar 3, 2008 | Reply

    For lack of facilities to develop agricultural and used it to feed them would agree to feed themselves.
    For lack of available land to feed them would require 22 billion where are we can find sufficient agricultural and used it to that idea if the only way we can find sufficient agricultural and pastoral.

  9. By LJ4TPM on Mar 5, 2008 | Reply

    The west many parts of finished beef will graze on smaller family farms now the animal are never eaten by humans they used to be fed supplement grains for at least one year for this statement is approximately 50.
    An average family farming small family farmsnot commercial ones some of its life not consuming resources other valuable products there.

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