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> Normally vegetarian food costs less than meat. It's because the animals need to eat (surprise surprise) vegetables! When you eat the vegetables directly inste
by deaddodo 4y ago
> Normally vegetarian food costs less than meat. It's because the animals need to eat (surprise surprise) vegetables! When you eat the vegetables directly instead of having the animal eat the vegetable for your, it's cheaper.
This is literally the whole point of the Food Chain and why species counts generally decrease as you go up the chain. Plants make up the vast majority of biomass on the planet. Animals that eat plants make up the next largest chunk. Animals that eat those animals make up the next largest. Etc.
I eat meat, but it's undeniable that vegetation is far more economic than meat on sheer scale.
- oblio 4y agoA classic: https://youtu.be/wOmjnioNulo?t=26 https://youtu.be/wOmjnioNulo?t=26 "Ten pounds of grass make a pound of steak. And ten pounds of steak make a pound of tiger. But these have the same number of calories - so you might as well just eat the cow and save yourself a lot of work."
- pclmulqdq 4y agoMight as well eat the tiger and save yourself even more work.
- ceejayoz 4y agoUnlike the conversion from grass to cow, the conversion from cow to tiger doesn't improve the nutrition for the consumer.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoI was being sarcastic there :) I have eaten land-based predator meat before, and it's usually very oily and not good for you at all. I wouldn't recommend them. Fish that eat other fish, like Tuna, can be tasty but are still not very nutritious.
- m000 4y agoOr, let the tiger eat you, and never have to worry about food again.