THINK: Quarter Pounder

Have you every spent time to THINK about what it takes to produce a quarter-pound of ground beef? NPR spent the last week of June talking about how we have become “A Nation of Meat Eaters”. While I knew that meat took more energy to produce than food people eat directly (vegetables, beans, fruit, etc.), I was shocked to learn that cattle require 20-30 pounds of feed to put a pound of meat on their bones, chickens require 2-3 pounds...

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