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Animals can't extract that much more. And we certainly can't get 100% of that back out during consumption, ignoring all the inefficiencies of the process. 1 po
by gibolt 6y ago
Animals can't extract that much more. And we certainly can't get 100% of that back out during consumption, ignoring all the inefficiencies of the process.
1 pound of food in might produce 0.01 pound of cow (probably much less).
- gamblor956 6y agoCows primarily eat grass and other ruminants that humans can't digest until the cows reach the finishing stage. At that point, expensive beef is finished on grass and cheap beef is finished on corn (to fatten it). So 1 pound of corn might only product 0.01 pound of cow, but that's because 99% of the cow was built up by its non-food diet.