Comment by 3eb7988a1663

4 hours ago

On a per-calorie basis, yes. Animal protein requires 10x the input of what you get back: 100 calories of chicken requires 1000 calories of feed. Now what we feed livestock is unlikely what most people would want to consume, but the systems are in place to allow such a transition.

Last time I looked it up, the US produces something like a ~million+~ kilograms of corn for every person in the country.

Edit: it was pointed out my corn estimate was off, and it is order of magnitude 1000kg per person.

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joha4270  3 hours ago

I think you have misplaced a unit somewhere, because that would be a truly absurd amount of corn.

A quick trip past wikipedia [1] suggest the figure was 383.6 million tonnes in 2021, which is still approximately a thousand kilograms of corn per person, which is still a lot (more than my annual consumption, that's for sure)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_production_in_the_United_...