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> animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition. I disagree. Average caloric and protein efficiency is 7%–8%. For beef specif
by wcoenen 5y ago
> animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition.
I disagree. Average caloric and protein efficiency is 7%–8%. For beef specifically, it is only 3%. I don't know how efficiently a cultured meat factory could convert grass into beef, but I bet it could do a better.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/105002 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...
- iammisc 5y agoThis article is not about converting land from meat to not-meat. It's about converting from beef to chicken. No one doubts that chicken is more efficient than beef. I have not argued that beef is the best animal.