Friedrich: Chicken production incurs 800% caloric waste via feed conversion
Bruce Friedrich · a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat' · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:37
Bruce Friedrich of the Good Food Institute outlines caloric conversion inefficiencies in chicken farming during an a16z panel on alternative proteins.
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“The most efficient meat is chicken. And according to the World Resources Institute, it takes nine calories in the form of corn or wheat or alfalfa or whatever you're feeding the chickens. It takes nine calories into a chicken. To get one calorie back out. So it's 800% waste.”
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