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Grazing cattle is less efficient than growing crops, discuss this point.
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Grazing cattle is less efficient than growing crops, discuss this point. "The beef in just one Big Mac represents enough wheat to make five loaves of bread." This just shows that growing wheat is more efficient than grazing cattle as the five loaves lasts, on average for a family of four, about three weeks whereas a Big Mac only lasts one person a matter of ten minutes, if that! In this essay I am going to discuss whether or not grazing cattle is less efficient than growing crops. There are many perspectives to this argument. From a biologists point of view, plant foods are far more energy efficient than animal products because when you eat meat, a vast amount of energy is lost through the food chains, whereas when you eat plant foods such as wheat, no energy is previously lost because plants are the producers of the food chains. On the...
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