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by hombre_fatal 904 days ago
Meat is the most inefficient way to grow calories. Beef, for example:

> The inefficiency is particularly high for beef, which uses about three-fifths of the world’s agricultural land yet produces less than 5 percent of its protein and less than 2 percent of its calories.

https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/Solutions... (based on FAO data)