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Chicken converts nine calories to one

Chicken is the most efficient farmed animal at converting crops into meat, yet it still takes about nine calories of feed (soy, oats) to get one calorie of meat back, making animal agriculture extraordinarily inefficient in land, water, pesticides, and herbicides, with pork and beef being even worse.

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Speaker

Bruce Friedrich

Evidence Quote

according to the world resource resources institute it takes nine calories in the form of soy or oats or whatever you're going to feed to the chicken it takes nine calories into the chicken to get one calorie back out

Source

244 - Food Climate And Pandemic RiskMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:36:58 AM

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