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Eating non-animal foods and producing meat (muscle) inside your body.
by akgerber 9y ago
Eating non-animal foods and producing meat (muscle) inside your body.
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- jriot 9y agoIt is far more efficient to eat animals and produce muscle. There aren't many world renowned athletes who are vegan for obvious reasons.
- marcc 9y agoWill you elaborate on the obvious reasons? Pretend they aren't obvious to me. I'm interested in reading more about athletic advantages gained from consuming meat. Is there a reason that other sources of protein aren't giving the same benefit?
- jriot 9y agoHere is a good article breaking it all down along with the amounts you would need to eat to get the same benefit. https://www.muscleforlife.com/animal-protein-vs-plant-protein/ https://www.muscleforlife.com/animal-protein-vs-plant-protei...
- gruez 9y agoefficiency in that context means from a global of view, not how much time you're spending eating.
- rsynnott 9y agoI assume they mean efficiency as in land area used etc. You have to put quite a lot of calories into a cow to get one calorie out.
- jriot 9y agohttps://qz.com/749443/being-vegan-isnt-as-environmentally-friendly-as-you-think/ https://qz.com/749443/being-vegan-isnt-as-environmentally-fr... Being vegan is that efficient either.
- tgb 9y agoThat's a poor summary of the article you link, given that it says vegan diets are almost twice as efficient as the standard American diet. (It just also says that low-meat diets are even more efficient in terms of land use.)
- mdarens 9y agoseeing as how veganism is not the default choice in most of the industrialized world, this is a misleading frame. it's also incorrect that it's more efficient to "eat animals" to produce muscle if we're being pedantic (as a vegetarian, however, this is not a meaningless distinction to me)— amino acids in dairy & eggs have a measurably higher bioavailability than those in meat, whether ranked by the PDCAAS or DIAAS https://web.archive.org/web/20151010170125/http://www.idf-iso-analytical-week.org/Files/media/AW2013/T-van-Hoojidonk---Assessing-protein-quality-110613.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20151010170125/http://www.idf-is....