Let's pretend you make a magical cow that you can get from birth to slaughter in 1 year and has a normal food intake and normal average slaughter weight and mag

Let's pretend you make a magical cow that you can get from birth to slaughter in 1 year and has a normal food intake and normal average slaughter weight and magically grinds up into a uniform 70% lean meat / 30% fat. 9,125 pounds of dry feed and 7,300 of drinking water nets you 530lbs of meat. We're going to stick with corn since it is a better cow-day yield per acre than oats. - 9,125lbs of corn = more than 16 million kcals. - 530lbs of 70/30 beef = 798,180 kcals. That's 20x more calories if you fed the corn to humans than if you process it through a cow's stomach with a magic cow that doesn't exist. In reality it's more 30-40x. A single cow's annual intake can feed more than 20 humans a 2000 kcal diet for a year. If we switched the farmland feeding cows alone over to growing for humans, you could feed 30 billion people if you stick with corn. Obviously humans can't surive on corn alone, realistically though you could feed 10-20 billion people with that same farmland, use less water, have far less environmental pollution, have less methane emissions, need far less refrigeration, drastically reduce the amount of antibiotics being used, improve soil quality, increase local pollinator populations by not turning square mile after square mile after square mile into the same crop, etc. The water cattle drink is something like 16.58 million Olympic swimming pools annually, or 41.45 cubic kilometers of water. Meat really is a luxury and needs to be treated as such. > I just don't like the thinly veiled "fuck the average people, they shouldn't eat meat while I and my buddies will continue to do so thanks to our lavish income". I made no such claim. I removed animal products from 95% of my meals last year. It isn't sustainable and it's creating all sorts of issues for the environment (and people). Find and run the numbers yourself. Meat has to become a luxury.