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burnished02/20/20252 repliesview on HN

Number of calories !== number of lives


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mattlutze02/24/2025

Significant input costs per animal calorie means there's an order of magnitude or more insects being killed to raise the animal that you ultimately end up eating, to get the same calories you'd have gotten just eating the plant sources.

zargon02/21/2025

If anything, I would expect the number of insects, small mammals, etc. killed by harvesting animal feed to be higher than that of harvesting crops grown for people, on a caloric basis.