Calories per animal life
Owner: galen
Dimension: Positive factor of an amount.
Description: This estimates the amount of food calories from one animal life. Higher means fewer animals suffer for your food.
Values last updated .
| classification | category | aw12 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mammals | Rodents | 600 | |
| Birds | 700 | ||
| Seafood | 800 | ||
| Birds | Chickens | 1 200 | |
| Mammals | Rabbits | 1 200 | |
| Seafood | Mollusks | 1 800 | |
| Seafood → Mollusks | Octopuses | 2 400 | |
| Seafood | Fish | 6 000 | |
| Birds → Chickens | Eggs | 60 000 | |
| Mammals | Deer | 140 000 | |
| Mammals | Sheep | 140 000 | |
| Mammals | Pigs | 150 000 | |
| Mammals | Goats | 180 000 | |
| Mammals → Cows | Veal | 250 000 | |
| Mammals | Cows | 600 000 | |
| Mammals → Cows | Milk | 18 000 000 | |
About
This is still a work in progress!
This is based on the theory that if one seeks to minimize the harm of one's animal consumption, the more meals an animal provides the better.
(There are other factors such as quality of life and how long they are able to live for.)
Some information is hard to get.
Chicken discussion here: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=2744321
Calories per egg estimated at 72 http://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/calories-in-an-egg, eggs per chicken lifetime estimated at about 800 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/science/how-many-eggs-does-a-chicken-lay-in-its-lifetime.html
Rabbits and rodents are guesses based on weight; the default mammal is roughly the same. Fish vary enormously, so I took a random stab. We might want to subdivide fish.
The average cow produces 20,000 pounds of milk per year http://www.dairymoos.com/how-much-milk-do-cows-give/ and are milked for 3-5 years; depending on the fat content (more fat, more calories per cow life!), there is about 230 calories per pound.
Cows produce about 400-500 lbs of meat https://www.oda.state.ok.us/food/fs-cowweight.pdf http://igrow.org/livestock/beef/how-much-meat-can-you-expect-from-a-fed-steer/, although we can expect the low end of the range since there is waste. I estimate 1500 calories per pound of beef.
Goats, sheep, and deer I just scaled like a cow to their weight. Pigs I did similar but also relied on http://lovelivegrow.com/how-much-meat-from-a-pig/
TODO: http://www.butcher-packer.com/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=331
Everything else now is just wild guesses.