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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by zargon on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:31PM (#43119065)
It takes 20 to 40 plant calories to raise one calorie of beef. So slaughtering a cow kills 20 to 40 times the number of lives as eating plants directly.
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by burnished on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:52PM (#43120762)
Number of calories !== number of lives
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by zargon on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:17PM (#43122418)
If anything, I would expect the number of insects, small mammals, etc. killed by harvesting animal feed to be higher than that of harvesting crops grown for people, on a caloric basis.
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by mattlutze on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:02AM (#43161077)
Significant input costs per animal calorie means there's an order of magnitude or more insects being killed to raise the animal that you ultimately end up eating, to get the same calories you'd have gotten just eating the plant sources.
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