Explain how a vegetarian diet might address the shortage of food available for people?

"Using the concept of the energy pyramid,

explain how a vegetarian diet might address the shortage of food available for people."



Need help with this biology questionnnn please help haha.Explain how a vegetarian diet might address the shortage of food available for people?
It will not.



The 'arguments' vegetarianism uses to promote its own propaganda and agenda have no basis in reality and exist solely from extrapolating data completely out of rational context.



Nowhere is this more apparent than the often and widespread fallacy of land use productivity (as per so much area of land can produce so much plant based food yet only so much animal based food): vegetarianism bases these models on the irrational practise of producing grains/soya (not healthy or natural for a human to eat) and then feeding the same grains to grazing animals (not healthy or natural for grazing animals either).



Grazing animals (should) eat grass.



And grass grows back.



These models also fail to specify that only sub-standard grain which would not have made it past standards set for human consumption get used as animal fodder.



Besides as you know, (as per energy pyramids), that even though net energy decreases upwards, the quality of nutrients increases.



Vegetarianism does not have any valid basis in Reality (and neither does it care). Try asking a vegetarian to bring their land-use productivity models back to any meaningful context of Reality, as per above rational farming practise of feeding grazing animals pasture (instead of grains/soya).



They will likely just personally insult you (or change the subject and warble on about something else).



Notwithstanding this, vegetarianism would not solve anything - it would drastically make the situation worse plunging this species and this planet into disaster.
Unfortunately, that's only theoretical, as most famines are an issue of distribution, not availability, of food. In countries where famines occur, the governments are typically corrupt and prevent aid from reaching those who need it.



But the idea is this: Animals raised for food consume large amounts of resources. It takes several pounds of grain to produce a pound of meat. It takes several hundred times the water to produce a pound of meat as it does a pound of, say, grain. And land used to produce meat feeds far fewer people than land used to produce soy beans, rice, wheat, and other staples.



Production of animal foods--and this includes dairy and eggs--uses massive amounts of resources for the food output. The idea is that if people went vegetarian, there would be more grains and corn to feed people is a nice one, but not necessarily so because of the issues outlined above. But there still are good arguments for going vegetarian or at least reducing your consumption of animal products, and that is conserving resources and contributing less to pollution and global climate change.Explain how a vegetarian diet might address the shortage of food available for people?
With each step in the food chain, 90% of energy is lost.



Since vegetables are producers, 0% of energy is lost between it being produced and you eating it (since there aren't any food chain steps in between and most plants do not get up and run around).



However, when you eat meat, the animal has passed at least one step in the food chain. Since the animal runs around, digests food, breathes, etc., 90% of the energy it just ate from the vegetables got lost. So in order for vegetables to USE the same amount of energy as meat, you would have to eat 10 times as many vegetables as meat.



summary-energy usage ratio:

10 vegetables: 1meat
Well first there is no shortage of food. It is kind of funny that anyone would believe that. Its just another vegan myth so they can glorify themselves as better humans. The facts are that if someone is hungry they can buy food if they have money, period. Food is shipped to and from everywhere in the world. If there is a demand the supply is there. Corrupt countries, greed, poverty, infertile land, are the reasons for hunger in the world. If they don't have the means to grow it or buy, or if their government won't help them they won't have any food. Eating meat and the meat industry doesn't have anything to do with world hunger. And becoming a vegan will not help to solve World hunger.Explain how a vegetarian diet might address the shortage of food available for people?
A cow will eat about 90-100 lbs of corn, soy, oats and grass each day. A person eats about 3-5 pounds of food per day.



A cow takes about 8-14 months to mature and go to slaughter. SO lets saverage that out to one year.

A cow will eat about 33000! lbs of food (one cow!). You will get about 700lbs of meat out of one cow.

So basically you use 47 lbs of grain to produce 1 lbs of meat.



That 1lbs of meat feeds 2 people on meal. However 47 lbs of grain feeds 9 people for a day!



That is just dealing with grain, not even dealing with the amount of water a cow consumes (outside of the amount of water it takes to grow the 100 lbs of grain it will consume daily)



In one year a cow eats 33000 lbs of grain. That is enough grain to feed one person (a big eater at 5lbs per day) for 20 years!