Is there a most efficient animal to feed a person with, in terms of average acreage for that animal, to feed a person with the amount of animals?
Is there a most efficient animal to feed a person with, in terms of average acreage for that animal, to feed a person with the amount of animals?
rabbits are the most efficient weight input to output farm animal. 4H teaches you this
Chickens, pigs and goats all serve this function well. Pigs and goats will notoriously eat almost anything, making them easy to take care of and easy to feed - and they even do reasonably well in enclosed or urban spaces.
Chickens on the other hand are a little bit of up-front work - you'll need a coop, a good rooster and some decent stock hens. But you can free range them on your land as long as you don't live in a desert, and you'll only have to buy supplemental grain/food for them once in awhile during hard winters. In return you get regular eggs and some pretty solid meat, especially if you 'fatten them up' a bit before butchering.
Vertical chicken farming
https://www.wired.com/2012/02/headless-chicken-solution/
other humans. what are you gonna do, just throw them away? we already process euthanized shelter pets into cheap pet food.
What about quail?
Chickens for normal animals
Arguably cuy for more exotic options.
Would definitely recommend the rodent route if your purpose is solely meat. Chickens are more high maintenance but you get eggs. Rabbits and guinea pigs can be done small scale and easily provide for a family
I was thinking goats or maybe chickens. Chickens seem so efficient and easy that it's crazy. I guess the answer to my question might correlate to the prices of things at the grocery store
unironically bugs
understandably, no one wants that.
Too low in calories. High in tannins and oxalates. Too much protein for how much you eat. It would be like living off spinach and peanuts. No one uses bugs as a primary food source.
Yeah no shit, the same can be said of any animal.You cannot live off animal protein alone, OP only asked for the most efficient in terms of acreage.
calm the fuck down.
>You cannot live off animal protein alone
Almost as if you can get all the necessary vitamins and minerals from the organs.
have fun with scurvy and constipation
>scurvy
Almost as if you can get vitamin C from eating organs.
you're not gonna prevent scurvy by eating lungs and brains, anon. there's nowhere near enough vitamin c
You eat them raw, dummy. You can easily exceed your daily vitamin C needs with raw organs. Heat degrades vitamins.
>b-but muh parasites
Even lions will refuse to eat carrion so why are YOU eating refrigerated 12 week old meat?
>eating raw brains
anon...
Unless you're eating raw human brains there's no risk of Kuru. Many cultures consume raw brains, especially goat and monkey brains.
I'd rather eat roasted bugs and an orange than raw fucking brains.
You don't have to actually eat raw brains to get enough vitamin C. Meat on it's own already contains enough vitamin C to get you well over your daily needs.
You really dont need much vitamin c to prevent scurvy
liver has a good amount of vitamins.
The only people in the world who live like that are the Inuit. They don't exactly have the best life expectancy
Most people living in nature eat primarily meat and organs. Honey here and there and some berries once or twice a year wouldn't be enough to rescue your body if it wasn't a viable diet.
Mongolians also live like that and tower over every other Asian sub group.
You dont get anything from bugs except a full feeling stomach
It would be like eating protein shakes. But worse. Worthless as an actual food source.
OP asked in terms of acreage, not overall nutrition.
You can, objectively, get shitloads of protein from a very small amount of space by farming insects. I'm not making any kind of statement beyond this. I don't understand what point you guys are trying to argue against, but it's not one I stated.
>YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS
I'm on to you, Klaus.
Imagine the filth resulting from a rat or bug farm. Those are disease-spreading vermin. Livestock like chickens can be symbiotic with their environment e.g. fertilizing their yard and keeping it free of parasites.
Bugs. My ass.
>bugs
>what is bio availability
Depending on the bug, bioavailable protein/nutrients per pound of bug can exceed that of vertebrate meat
I still won't eat the bugs because the elites are a bunch of hypocrites
I would actually be okay with eating the bug for the greater good.
Unfortunately the rich elite are bunch of corrupt hypocrites that will either find way to avoid eating the bug and still get to eat meat or eat meat in secret.
idk, pork?
i considered tryin chocolate ants once, well it wasn't like i had an opportunity to but idk it seemed neat, apparently they do that in mexico
cultural bias
>High in tannins and oxalates
false
>No one uses bugs as a primary food source.
But, one could.
Crustaceans are arthropods
Now that is truly disgusting
>Now that is truly disgusting
Cultural bias from a racist bigot.
Not that guy, but it is objectively disgusting. That's not a race issue, that's a disgust issue. Simple as. You want people to not think you're disgusting? Eat actual food suitable for human beings.
bugs arent actually that efficient at feeding a person
their efficiency comes from the scale at which you can farm them to feed huge populations
althouhhbi cant tell from the way the question is worded if thats what op means
Rats.
Mental illness.
Chickens??