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		ethbro on Aug 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-ba... For those who don't know various feed conversion ratios offhand: {Type of meat} - {FCR, Edible Weight} - {Conversion efficiency %, caloric} - {Conversion efficiency %, protein} Beef - 36 - 2.9% - 2.5% Pork - 6 - 9% - 9% Chicken - 4.2 - 13% - 21% (specifics vary according to method, but cross species comparisons remain similar) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...

scoot on Aug 27, 2019 [–]

I had to look it up, but FCR is "Feed Conversion Rate", or "food in over product out", so lower is better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio

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