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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (20994)	10/29/2004 4:36:47 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

on the face of it, 16:1 for meat sounds pretty low if there is any truth to 10:1 for plant foods. after all, it supposedly takes 10 plant calories to produce 1 meat calorie. OTOH, the plant calories fed to livestock are primarily bulk commodities (with plenty of chemicals to make them safe :), so the packaging part of the energy budget in plant calories can be largely circumvented. also, each factoid-providing "expert" can include and exclude various parameters at will, so it is probably pretty hard to compare apples to gonads with these numbers.