I prefer eating things I am able to identify than the magic vat produced packets of “food”. Dead animal and fresh plant. To feed the world we will be forced to power up more of the vats of mystery goo. As it is, most folks now have no idea how to make a meal if it does not come out of a package and pops into a warming machine.
Eating plants takes more energy to digest than high nutrient animal protein. Hunt and gather. clay I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. > On May 4, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Rule of thumb from back in the day is that 90% of the calorie intake of an > animal is "wasted" -- that is, does not appear as weight due to growth. > > As I pointed out in my Ecology class all those years ago, animals MOVE, and > consume quite a bit of energy doing so, plus normal metabolism and > maintaining temperature uses calories too. > > Plants don't thermo-regulate, and movement is quite limited, being driven by > the movement of water in soft tissues by and large. No brain, so no nervous > system burning glucose either! > > What means in real terms is that a pound of meat takes a whole lot more > sunlight to make than a pound of high oil plant seeds. > > Point taken on the "feeding the masses" -- eventually we will eat the planet > brown if the population keeps growing. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > clay I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
