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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m just trying to explain trophic energy loss, not get in the middle of this- the number of calories that a pig eats during its lifetime is much smaller than the calories we can get from its meat. These calories aren’t “lost,” but they are used by the pig to support its growth, function, and movement. If we ate the soybeans used to feed it instead, we’d need to harvest fewer plants, because it’s more efficient to just get the calories from the plants than it is to also support an additional animal.

[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thank you, context is valuable.

Calories are not "lost" when eaten, they are reallocated.

Efficiency also depends on context. Should you dig a hole manually or with a backhoe?

How big is the hole, how was the backhoe built, how far away is it, who owns it, what is its fuel, and so on.

[–] ambiguous_yelp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

"they" not "it" they're thinking feeling creatures with personality memory preferences fears and feel pain love grief and comfort, they are someone not something not an inanimate object and never "it" not calling other animals it is a simple thing we can do to subconsciously reduce speciesism in the world