"Christopher P. Cericola" > wrote in message
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> < Really? How well do you process grass? I'd say you're lying. there
is
> no way that you can convert grass to protein to keep yourself alive. A cow
> can and does just that, and makes for a delicious steak when done... >
>
> Let me preface this with saying I am neither vegan nor vegetarian. While
> humans cannot process grass into protein(and maybe they can, I just do no
> have the time to research this) there are other grains and beans that we
can
> such as soy. Soy, per pound, provides more protein than beef(and with
less
> health risks too). Soy is often used as feed for farm animals because of
> its inexpensive nature to be produced.
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read your last sentence, the key is *often*. Cows do not *need* to be fed
anything besides grass. They do quite well on it. In fact, really better.
when grass fed their omega3 fat levels start to rival that of fish, instead
of omega6. Aside from that though, how do you figure it's more effecient to
feed them soy? .Or, how do your figure it's more effecinet to grow all the
soy and then process it into a form we can eat than to just eat a free
ranging grass-fed cow?


>
> It is a very simple fact that each level of processing(i.e., cow eats soy,
> we eat cow) sacrifices some of the nutrients and energy in the food.
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No, it doesn't. Not if the *food* you start with is inedible to the final
person doing the eating. That makes cows a very efficient way to convert
inedible, environmentally friendly plants into a form that we can then eat.


If
> some creature above us were to eat us, they would only gain a partial
> benefit of what we gained from the cow.
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And why would he care? His hunger is satisfied regardless of your supposed
efficientless process.


>
> Christopher
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