For all the information talking of how many more calories per acre come from plant sources as compared to animal…
I wonder something ; how comparable is it really?
I’ve read of people who realized on a small scale just how productive one cow can be for giving milk, and how much meat a few pigs can provide vs going vegan on their land.
I type as I take a break from my dinner, leftover steak, probably ⅓lb, and how filling it is cooked fairly rare.
Like eggs, red meat has more power in a less cooked than fully cooked steak.
8oz a day of this is better than anything of equivalent weight or even equivalent calories from the plant world.
While below 2000 calories, I bet 1lb of this would be enough to suffice as one’s daily bread.
You could live on that just fine.
A calorie of nutritious red meat without it’s vitality lost by overcooking, those calories are more valuable than other calories.
Being the raw eggs and rare red meat are more powerful, what would 2000 calories a day of them do?
I’m 6′. It could be the exact ticket to lean & mean, and in military weight regs, with good energy and eating aplenty.
Or it could just lean me out while maintaining weight at 260-270lbs.
I know commercial agriculture grows crazy calories, and read that aside from potatoes (low maintenance) and corn (more labor intensive field to plate) on a homestead level most plants don’t produce nearly as many calories per acre small scale as they do commercially.
What I’ve read about agriculture and what I intuit while eating is this ;
Meat, which is more satiating, is much more comparable in calories per acre on a small scale than it is in commercial agriculture.
The abundance of calories due to commercial agriculture is the only reason so many in america can be so heavy.
A little meat, and some crops grown by your own hand in your colonial era yard wouldn’t be growing modern giants of girth, but lots of an athletic size.
George Washington was what 6′ 200lbs?
Another half generation of so after him, that point in american history that’d be nearly the norm for the majority of the people of a still small scale farming and rural nation.
Meat grows lean and tall.
Look at tribesman who eat meat.
Mixed macro grows heavy and tall.
Look at america, both at all the blubber walking/waddling around, and take note of the sons of immigrants taking full advantage of the cornucopias available at the grocery store. Everyone can grow big and tall with adequate available calories. Exercise is what distinguishing fat vs muscular when this is the case.
Vegan grows short, less healthy specimens of humanity. Late adoption can even swing one to unhealthy and low energy away from normalcy. Use your eyes.
If every man grew to 6′ 165lbs, something I see quite commonly amongst the still healthy retirees who grew up in a less food abundant america than I have, I think that in a world where every family small scale farmed that this size would be the norm across races, and that there would be no food shortages.
There’s talk of overcrowding, but earth is nowhere near being used to it’s most efficient.
And if there was no obesity, well every few obese individuals would free up the calories necessary to support another middleweight’s life.
(As it requires a couple pounds of fat to clear space for each pound of lean, as lean is more calorically dense.)
Obesity must greatly affect the carrying capacity of maximum number of individuals.
Could america without obesity, and still possessing modern agriculture support nearly 700 million instead of the 300 something million it does?
Hell, with how much food tossed out because of use by/sell by/best by date guidelines it may be capable already if there was more efficient usage of production.
I also wonder homesteading – what would be the maximum carrying capacity of individuals without obesity?
In america and worldwide.
With modern agriculture and efficient delivery could global population double?
It’s a lot of utopian theoreticals.
•No obesity.
•Perfect land usage.
•Perfect logistics ie everything exactly where it need be, and zero waste.
•Everyone providing their own using small scale production or perfect sharing of work/results using commercials methods of production.
•No greed.
•No picky eating.