Beware of data magnitude couched in terms of factors rather than dimensions. Consider a businessman who offers you one half of all his profits. It sounds tempting yet if the profits are zero or close to zero, your half will be 0. This study suggests the environment can benefit from harm reduction if consumers substitute pork and poultry for their beef-based protein source until ultimately efficient sources are adopted such as high protein plant products or laboratory cultured flesh. Bovines are inefficient at energy extraction from feed. “The key to beef’s hefty environmental impact is that cattle are far less efficient at getting the most out of their food than pigs and chickens are. “Only a minute fraction of the food consumed by cattle goes into the bloodstream, so the bulk of the energy is lost,” Eshel told Damian Carrington at the Guardian, adding that feeding cattle grain rather than grass makes this inefficiency even worse.”
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