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(In)efficiency of meat v. vegetables

 
 
Reply Mon 25 Nov, 2019 09:56 am
Google says a cow eats about 25lbs of vegetation per day.

It also says beef cows are slaughtered at 36 months of age.

36 months x 30 days = 1080 days.
25 lbs/day x 1080 days = 27,000 lbs of food.

Google also says you get 440lbs of beef from a cow.

27,000 / 440 = 36 (approximately)

So that means it takes 36 lbs of grass or other vegetation to get one pound of meat out of a cow.

So the "35 times" number in this article approximately matches that:
https://vegnews.com/2019/11/one-serving-of-meat-is-35-times-more-environmentally-damaging-than-a-serving-of-vegetables-oxford-study-finds

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hightor
 
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Reply Mon 25 Nov, 2019 11:02 am
Why Avoiding Meat Won't Save the Planet
livinglava
 
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Reply Mon 25 Nov, 2019 11:12 am
@hightor,

Why don't you post something other than a link?
hightor
 
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Reply Mon 25 Nov, 2019 12:13 pm
@livinglava,
Because people who are interested in the topic might find the article and the website interesting.
livinglava
 
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Reply Mon 25 Nov, 2019 01:08 pm
@hightor,
hightor wrote:

Because people who are interested in the topic might find the article and the website interesting.

If you read it before posting it, why don't you mention some line of reasoning to add to the discussion, instead of just posting a link?
hightor
 
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Reply Mon 25 Nov, 2019 01:48 pm
@livinglava,
Because once I'd posted the relevant link I felt I had made a sufficient response.
Sturgis
 
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Reply Mon 25 Nov, 2019 01:53 pm
@hightor,
That was how it appeared to me.
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