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archomrade@midwest.social 2 weeks agoLol, ok so you’re including labor cost?
A couple years of a dear ‘gathering nutrients’, vs a summer of cultivating a garden and harvesting? Or do I need to include the energy expenditure (energy ingested by the dear minus energy lost to biological processes, vs solar energy collected minus energy expended on building plant mass and energy expended in harvest)?
I was really just pointing out the absurdity of your complaint about the study but you’re making this into a fun little digression.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
it costs us almost nothing to take down a deer. it costs us a great deal to raise a garden.
archomrade@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Costs nothing to harvest a plant, too.
Costs a great deal to own a gun and ammunition, a truck to haul, tools and labor to clean and butcher, and more to store and prepare it. To speak nothing of the labor of the dear to produce the biomass.
Lol we can keep going with this if you want, it’s pretty fun.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
foraging for plants is a lot less calorie efficient than hunting or fishing.
archomrade@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Lmao not if you’re hunting with spears!
Or are we allowed to use tools in this hypothetical digression?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
this smacks of bad faith.
archomrade@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Lmao I thought that’s what you were doing