On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Mega <masterstorm123@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys, I was thinkig about that stuff.
>
> To make 1 kg of goat meat, you need 10 kg wheat. If a wolve eats the
> goat, you need again 10 kg for 1 kg.
> Same game if a lion eats the wolve.
>
>
> wheat->meat goat->meat wolve -> meat lion
> 1000 -> 100 -> 10 -> 1
> So to make 1kg of lion meat you'd need 1000kg of wheat.
>
> (Now imagine a human eating the lion -> 10'000kg or 10 tons!!)
Your math is correct, but its also not likely to happen unless you're
some tribal group in Africa.
I know from living on a ranch for a while that you can easily go from
10kg seed -> 1kg chicken which you can then eat. Chickens are
relatively genetically distant as compared with mammals that people
eat, and as I've killed a living chicken, grilled, and eaten it within
the course of an hour before... chickens are much less 'friendly' or
'cute' in my opinion than say a cow or goat even.
That said, just like cows and goats giving milk while alive, keeping
chickens alive produces value as well in the form of eggs. With even
an acre or 2 of land you can easily keep chickens, which I think would
be enough protein/meat supplement for a family. This obviously won't
work for the millions/billions of people living in high-rise
apartments though.
--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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