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Given that it takes substantially more vegetables to raise animals than it would to get the same amount of calories from eating them directly, shouldn't that number be above one?
One could argue that eating a free-range animal that collects its own food causes fewer animal deaths than eating industrially grown plants.
Not if [cost of animals] also includes [cost of plants to feed animals]
(But in general I still think this whole thing has to be way off, even by back-of-the-envelope standards)
The calculation he was using this to multiply by did not include cost of plants to feed animals.