A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by adrianN on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:05PM (#15772448)

Now do it without a nervous system that can experience suffering

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by jjoonathan on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:29PM (#15772569)

and without losing 90% (or was it 99%?) of the input energy to heat.

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Re:A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs... by nkurz on Friday November 24, 2017 @04:59PM (#15773252)

I think egg production by chickens is actually more efficient than that. If I'm reading Figure 1 in the following link correctly, it looks like modern farms are about 17% efficient for calories of food fed to the chickens to calories of eggs produced: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/10...

For comparison (from the same figure) pork is 9%, chickens raised for meat are 13%, cow production of milk is 17%, and cows raised for beef are 3% efficient.

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