Editor: Calories per animal life

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**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.

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