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It isn't one pound of beef = feeding 25 people, it is that 25 units of grain produce one unit of beef. Feeding someone does not just mean giving them two slices
by 3pt14159 15y ago
It isn't one pound of beef = feeding 25 people, it is that 25 units of grain produce one unit of beef. Feeding someone does not just mean giving them two slices of bread.
- latch 15y agoFood aid is often delivered as grains (corn/rice) and water. I'm not really sure what you are getting at. I agree that it's a complicated issues involving subsidies, nutrition, shipping, processing. Maybe it was wrong to assign a specific #...maybe I just say "you can feed a lot people from the energy that goes into growing a steak" ?
- jules 15y agoHe/she was pointing out that how many people you can feed is not a sensible statistic. You can feed a lot of people with a single sugar cube. The question is how long can this lot of people survive on the energy that goes into growing a steak.