Reply #405: Food consumption does not equal energy consumption. [View All]

[cobalt1999]

We use much more energy per capita than other countries and much more per capita than we used to use. In some cases 30-40 times more energy than developing countries.

However, we are only consuming about 30% more calories than we used to (still too much as our expanding waist lines will attest). However, we can't consume 30-40 times more calories per capita than someone in India/China as it is almost physiologically impossible.

There is a limit on how much we can eat, there is little limit on how much energy we can consume, so you are wrong that food consumption is the same as energy consumption. The only statistic that matters is calories consumed per capita.

As for the rainforest, Brazil exports to China & the EU & the Middle East & Mexico. They ship worldwide, so yes, grazing land in Brazil is feeding people in India & China.