Lie#1: Meat production wastes crop resources by requiring 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of meat. Fact: That estimate assumes beef cattle are fed grain completely from birth to market weight when in reality an average of 2.6 pounds of grain is used to produce 1 pound of meat in developed countries and 0.3 pound of grain in developing countries.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Some corrections on food production myths: