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Food
Trivia
It takes about 2
pounds of grain to produce one pound of
chicken meat, about 4 pounds of grain to
produce 1 pound of pork, and about 8 pounds
of grain to produce 1 pound of beef.
In 2002
American meat packers produced over 27
billion pounds of beef, 205 million pounds
of veal, 19.7 billion pounds of pork and 222
million pounds of lamb and mutton.
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