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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by maximus-decimus on Saturday September 24, 2022 @10:43AM (#32963053)
Measuring food production by calories feels like measuring programmer productivity by lines of code.

How does it compare to other sources of proteins with full amino acid profiles?

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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by pittmajp on Saturday September 24, 2022 @11:30AM (#32963609)
Irrelevant. You can get a full amino acid profile by combining plant based sources. It is basic high school biology that there’s less energy available the higher up on the food pyramid you go.

Farming Lions for meat would be less economical than farming cows. Farming cows is less economical than farming wheat.

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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by maximus-decimus on Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:12PM (#32964019)
> You can get a full amino acid profile by combining plant based sources.

Well, yeah, that's why I'm asking how meat compares to those rather than pure calories sources like corn or sugar cane.

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