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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Everyone should eat meat no more than five times a week. The resources used to make the protein for one meat meal can also be used to make the protein for twelve vegetarian meals.
Who's going to eat 12 vego meals just to get the same benefit they get from 1 meat meal?
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Not true. A given amount of land can provide complete vegetable protein for 12 people or meat protein for one person. The protein content in each meal is the same, but the vegetarian protein option supports more people.
Most of the energy in food goes to maintaining the metabolism of the animal that eats it and is dissipated as heat. Only a small proportion of the food goes to make the body of the animal so it can in turn be eaten by another. The millions of wildebeest in the Serengeti do not support a population of millions of lions and hyenas for exactly this reason. In any balanced ecosystem, the prey outnumber the predators.