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Pound for pound, it cannot be denied meat provides more nutrition than the same amount of plants.
by xwdv 6y ago
Pound for pound, it cannot be denied meat provides more nutrition than the same amount of plants.
- krastanov 6y agoPound for pound of CO2 (or water, or other resources) it can not be denied that plants provide more nutrition than meat.
- chickenpotpie 6y agoWhy is nutrition per pound your metric? Doctors don’t advise that we eat x pounds of food a day. Also this is easily disprovable. A vegan multivitamin is thousands of times more nutritionally dense than meat, but i don’t eat 2 pounds of multivitamins a day.
- arcturus17 6y agoNot OP but as someone who lifts heavy weights and often needs 3-4000kcal a day, but doesn’t have a huge appetite, I do care about nutrient density. To me vegetarian diets are not practical because of how much food I would need to eat to hit my macros compared to an omnivore diet.
- Voloskaya 6y agoDo your beliefs forbid you from having more than 250g of food in your plate at a given time? If not that's not quite relevant.
- mdorazio 6y agoThis is like saying pound for pound lead is more dense than iron. It's a useless comparison. Meats have some nutritional content that plants have less of, and plants have some nutritional content that meats have less of. Look up comparisons between beef and broccoli, for example.
- veonik 6y agoAre we also considering the pounds of plants that the animal had to eat to grow to such a size? I should imagine it takes quite a lot of food to raise a one ton cow for slaughter. At least one ton of plant material as food, right? To produce how many pounds of meat? 750lbs seems reasonable. So if you had 2750lbs of plant food for yourself, vs just the 750 lbs of meat -- which has more nutrients? (I do not know the answer myself, but I can see where it could be argued that meat is not more nutritious, pound for pound)
- nightski 6y agoHumans can't digest grass. While we do feed cows corn for at least a portion of their life, it doesn't need to be as prolific as it is. But we also feed them things like beet pulp pellets and molasses - both of which are by products of sugar production. Unless we are going to stop eating sugar what else would you do with this waste?
- chickenpotpie 6y agoHumans eat molasses too...
- nightski 6y agoCane molasses. Sorry I wasn't clear - I was primarily talking about sugar beet molasses which is used for animal feed.
- _Microft 6y agoYou might be interested in these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer_efficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_percent_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...
- giantandroids 6y agoThis really is a vague statement without defining what you mean by 'nutrition'. If you're referring protein, well sort of, however some non meat based products carry plenty, nuts, black beans (15g of protein per cup).. At the same time there are plenty of vitamins / minerals in vegetables that you cannot get from meat. Vitamin C being a key one.
- vortegne 6y agoIt definitely can and should be denied. Not that it matters, your point is useless anyway.