why is beef triple the price of pork and chicken?
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Cows are ruminants which means they can digest cellulose in grass unlikely animals, it’s their preferred died. This was great for us because we could have them just run around and graze the plains eating food we couldn’t and turning it into food for us.
However there was never a time in history before now that people were eating this much meat this often. Now there just wouldn’t be enough grazing space on earth for all the cows if they only ate grass naturally, so we feed them “feed” a lot of the time, a mix of corn and other things that might not be as good for the cow but it’s cheaper.
Basically cows are just hig creatures who digest food slowly and they need a lot of it, and that food needs a lot of water and land to grow on. Their overall resource input to food output is super low compared to pork or chicken because of their diet
I’m no farmer or anything but I’ve always found this stuf interesting. Here’s some info from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio.
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