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23.1g of protein per 100g of ground beef25lbs of ground beef is 11339.81 grams, so about 2619 grams of proteinWholesale prices put that at about $44 for 25lbs at most.So about $0.02 per gram of protein, or $7.62 per lb of protein.About 33450 calories at $0.0013 per calorie.
25g of protein per 100g of dry lentils25lbs of lentils is 11339.81 grams, so about 2835 grams of proteinWholesale prices puts that at about $35 for 25lbs at most.So about $0.01 per gram of protein, or $5.6 per lb of protein.About 40000 calories at $0.0009 per calorie.
23.1g of protein per 100g of chickpeas25lbs of chickpeas is 11339.81 grams, so about 2188 grams of proteinWholesale prices put that at about $23 for 25lbs at most.So about $0.01 per gram of protein, or $4.77 per lb of protein About 41270 calories at $0.0005 per calorie.
35.1 g of protein per 100g of dry milk25lbs of dry milk is 11339.81 grams, so about 3980 grams of proteinWholesale prices put that at about $95 for 25lbs at most.So about $0.02 per gram of protein, or $10.60 per lb of proteinAbout 40596 calories at $0.0020 per calorie.
I don't have easy figures on storage volume / lb. If you were to powder the lentils and chickpeas, you might save a lot of space if you're charged by volume for shipping. But that may also increase moisture ingress and lead to easier spoilage, and may add to the overall cost.
Worth noting that chickpeas (garbanzo beans) are a complete protein, the cheapest over all cost for 25lbs, and highest best protein per dollar.I'd be curious to find it there are seasonal variations and volatility on these numbers too. These are point-in-time measure by nature.
Worth noting that anything that can be dried and stored for a long period of time in a grain silo typically has low price volatility on the market. I'm also not accounting for water/land efficiency.https://t.co/pHE5Z4CZyF
One of the nice things about cows/chickens/goats etc is that if you keep them free-range, you can generate calories from land that would not be able to be farmed from. But when you don't factory farm, you lose predictability and that makes it harder to compete on global markets.
The dry milk costs so much b/c it's energy expensive to be able to dehydrate it and turn it into a powder. That and it's a highly concentrated form of milk, it self is relatively high labor and input intensive. Expensive to ship due to being a perishable liquid.
Theoretically dry milk, if kept cool and in a dry envirionment, can last 18+ years. But if you're doing that for some reason, you may be better off buying a cow. Many nutrients have a much lower shelf life, and I suspect you'd not have much vitamin A or D left after a few years.
A lot of that information can be gleaned from nutrition science journals, but, it may not be directly applicable to your particular storage method. https://t.co/dm2LXBlVXN
Similarly to the cow, at some point if we're talking about storing things long term, you're better off setting up a work flow that involves saving seeds and raw planting materials, occasionally planting an refreshing your seed stock to avoid mold/disease from killing them.
Like most things in our universe, what we're really talking about is exchanging on a trade off of time/space/energy. It costs time and energy to concentrate milk, but you get out of it a lower space to store it, and higher resistance to entropic decay.
If you really wanna get nerdy, you can start to talk about it in terms of physics.Its a compression of information, applied to food?I just finished watching "Biology as Information Dynamics - John Baez" and I'm wondering about physics models of food. https://t.co/P7NY3fUEZy
I think about animals as machines that concentrate nutrition by way of digesting information about their environment.Meat machines as dissipate structures leveraging information to fight against entropy.https://t.co/EN0xMy2tl4
Just take a look at the nature of rhizomes and fungal signaling networks to get at the complex ways that plants forage for resources. They don't move much like animals But plant seeds are just as complex as anything out there.https://t.co/DyA1RvU4p6
Poop networks, not even once.https://t.co/fIUYpvkIIE
Ancient Memeshttps://t.co/Jk1jeZgaqU
Ancient Memes"milk was considered a miracle fluid which could cure people and give wisdom. The mythical figure Philosophia-Sapientia, the personification of wisdom, suckled philosophers at her breast and by this way they absorbed wisdom and moral virtue."https://t.co/tVdJxhrdie
Ancient Memes"This evidence suggests that such vessels were used to feed animal milk to children, providing crucial insight into the diet of developing infants in prehistoric human populations."https://t.co/IoAxCg6QMa
"evidence of the foodstuffs that were used to either feed or wean prehistoric infants confirms the importance [...] for these early communities, and provides information on the infant-feeding behaviours that were practised by prehistoric human groups."https://t.co/Xt9Ukh8vSQ
On storage and microbes in the ancient memes of milk and mammary glands.https://t.co/zfnta04GXf
Ancient memes and forbidden cheeses. Milk preservation and the history of civilization. Stocks and flows.https://t.co/wv6oGLPnVJ
The trajectory of humankind molded by a mammary gland.https://t.co/rnaRqRp5xR
A slow hunch. 1850s and the germ theory of disease.https://t.co/kUplDSJd3H
Grappling with an idea.https://t.co/mqMxBEkxOR
@mariachong Yes! I'm grappling with that exact idea constantly. How it interacts with resource density (food) and hazards (germs) in the environment, and the way the cycle manifests itself depending on the variations in stress/fear response and cultural norms.https://t.co/wJKKTTSxSV
An idea of dynamic balance.https://t.co/FKbcfBmmj4
Why do I have PCOS genes?https://t.co/s3DSWmPxzT
What does this mean?"These findings suggest the efficacy of orally administered anti-measles [cow] colostrum in improving the condition of MS patients (P less than 0.05)."https://t.co/SYJR4w2ptS
Diabetes & autoimmune issues -> autism risk in child https://t.co/b5pFKRdyWKselenium levels -> diabetes & thyroid issueshttps://t.co/aS1aghhjiVthyroid autoantibodies -> autism risk in childhttps://t.co/6QgIZtPaWtIs selenium from lentils associated with autism? Probably.
dog butt theory of autism strikes again.https://t.co/NX43WZkA8d
A song to remember this by."I don't know whether to laugh or cry [...]Dear God, I wasn't breast fedAnd most of my conversations with men seem to revolve around musicI'm no musician but the pain has been instrumental"https://t.co/tJfi0w1MxI
Like a broken record, instructing me to strike at the root of western food ideology.https://t.co/2jbQcwvfbP
Grinning like a bear.https://t.co/Z1gjMvCb17
Suckling at the teat of an intestinal microbe, who's spirit indwells within me like a temple. A metaphor about god giving us strength? Or a misunderstanding.https://t.co/or4Pko6tQQ
Do you ever wonder what the minimum size of a colony of chickens you would need to be able to maintain an egg production supply while also maintaining the balance of bacterial evolution that will continue unabated in space?https://t.co/ttQfCUPFbg
One of my favorite youtubers is trying to build a self contained mars base simulation, using chickens + plants as the producer of CO2/O2, hoping to cycle gas around his base. https://t.co/wlMytkEiCF
"I'm really happy that we took the risk and ramped up our inventory, despite the fact that in food manufacturing it's well known that everyone is doing Just-In-Time [...]Most [...] only have 3 days on hand at any given moment."https://t.co/BRmpDZpwdZ 🥲https://t.co/fdur6WaEhw
Worried a lot about access to food and the collapse of global supply chains.https://t.co/EeMM2cWHeM
I was just informed about CO2 prodution shortages & possible impact on food preservation.Of course there is no backup system; preparing for a blackswans and cascade failures isn't profitable.Thank you o glorious hand of the free market for punching us in the face :(
Decompressing an idea to make it easier to consume.https://t.co/vEBdM5bi1W https://t.co/4quWjA4OQT
Consuming wisdom and pooping ideas.https://t.co/kgQmU7Yvir
Informavore's delight.https://t.co/VeKiT9HqZV
Mixed Metaphors.https://t.co/psVM10nWkd
Mixed metaphor, on making edibles out of twitter webs. An informavore's delight; Did you know that spider webs are technically edible? Forbidden cotton candy."I Ate Nothing But Spider Webs for a Week and Now I Wish I Never Accepted This Internship"https://t.co/2tc6DchZJe
Gah. These metaphors are compressed together.Add some energy in, and a bit and let them condensate a bit.https://t.co/hTCvUiY9yb
Eating the elephant in the room, 4 bits a time.Nibble on it until the entire elephant as passed thru your body.https://t.co/aJItV3B2Om
Become the 'Coral Polyp in the Info-Torrent' you want to see in the world.https://t.co/MZAHl0rtQH
Makes sense, but geez."nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day. A single chicken processor is smashing 750,000 unhatched eggs every week." [APR 2020]https://t.co/u5d8vfHFbv
Peas & Lentils. https://t.co/DH7WO9ex4n
I saw the Lentil Revolution on reddit /r/frugal/ back in*checks notes*2010And then shortly after I saw Bill gates investing in it.https://t.co/QGchM49DXM
This was back when nudge theory was all the rage"Building on this success, the program was further enhanced with an incentive: a bag of lentils to all families vaccinated" [2011]https://t.co/YVuFYvlVIG
"found that by giving mothers an incentive to go to the camps to immunize their children, and by making it easier for them to get there, the rate of full immunization increased from 6% to 38%. The incentive – a kilo of lentils for every child immunized."https://t.co/gC41PCDVYE
I think a lot about growing my *OWN* lentils.https://t.co/PjA3NWcoRq
Small scale farming is really fascinating.https://t.co/hqtAPj6kVf
You can also learn to ferment lentils to help remove toxins and increase their nutritional yield.https://t.co/mK1z3nyvEB
Here's a paper on the application of nudge theory and it's use to manipulate people for their own good.https://t.co/TNcGVBImb5
Feels weird to me to have one of the richest men in the world buying up farm land and investing in health programs that depend on the product he's interested in growing being used.https://t.co/2szlC4sOVr
I don't think this is some asinine conspiracy. I think this is a very smart man looking at the numbers and figuring out how to make the most amount of impact toward ending world hunger.But I worry about putting all our eggs in one basket.
Did you know if you sprout your own peas and lentils in the dark it can go a long way to reducing allergens?https://t.co/LwKmdIUct7
I think a lot about mitigating potential problems that might occur if large scale power with reach end up pushing for monocrops. Like that DAO thing can neutralize histamines.https://t.co/6IQX5jsoHc
If people aren't looking for these problems, then even one of the smarter people in the world wouldn't realize that what he's doing might be inadvertently dangerous.https://t.co/hqCfte7H7U
@eigenrobot Chitin ferments into butyrate in the gut. Too much butyrate can be really bad because it makes mucus and can drive dysbiosis. I say this knowing that I personally eat about 300% more sources of butyrate than most people to compensate for poor mucus problems tied to crohn's.
I think a lot about what influences these kinds of thinkers and how they might be inadvertently (or maliciously) manipulated by emergent (or maligned) flows of information.https://t.co/eoHNWFqg5H
I am a court jester, trying to tell you funny jokes.https://t.co/GtdOOB6cs4
The blindness of modern venture capital and the prevailing capitalist system (and the mirror version of this exists in communist systems) all vying to optimize metrics ends up becoming Folly of Goodhart's Law.They are optimizing for economic returns.https://t.co/LojkNbzAXu
I play a different game.https://t.co/DCaQG18cmh
I am a minority report.https://t.co/QGv6xpvERa
What happens if you nudge people into using toilets by manipulating their meaning making machinery by influencing leaders? For their own good...https://t.co/XNI9KMG2oI
One of the most horrifying things in the world to me is the idea of camouflaging bad smells. Like this is the potential to drive global collapse of behavioral immune systems that keep people healthy. https://t.co/qY8Qfhl5wJ
The reason people don't like bad smells is because they signal danger and disease! https://t.co/bcMXyCb0KL
@balajis @The_Lagrangian @almostlikethat @cole_tucker Can your model of gut bacterially driven serotonin derivatives drive predictions about scent from a disease that disrupts immune signaling and predict what happens to people who lose sense of smell?https://t.co/jGyfyIR9Uv
This could spark a man-made catastrophe that would make synthetic smallpox look like a toy. https://t.co/gE2V8UDPjU
Tricking an immune system driven avoidance behavior into not activating by using a perfume in a short-sighted attempt to make people use toilets?We aren't even beginning to uncover how this space works.https://t.co/wa5oacHuzT
How do you tell one of the most powerful men in the world that he's going to accidentally kill us all if he's not careful?https://t.co/ZOy29W3ncL
I am the laughing man.https://t.co/PtaRiigo18
"It's been there for all this timeBut we were blind folded and our wings were tiedBut now I know this game was just a shallow trickYeah, I'm done who's up for a higher trip?" 🎶https://t.co/MG6o6ydaAZ
Extrinsic incentives considered harmful.https://t.co/phOS8e3SmN
Told my dad on his deathbed about how I'm going to complete the work.https://t.co/9FCMJtpoDZhttps://t.co/PG1xtiykry
> "Hermeticism teaches this. When you eat, you are not just consuming calories, you are consuming information. And when you shit, you are not just excreting waste, you are excreting entropy." 🔥https://t.co/PGolaH7VCk
Biology was wrong; digestion is not a straight line from mouth to anus but a circle. Even in your gut, everything comes full circle. The ancient Greeks knew this. Hermeticism teaches this. When you eat, you are not just consuming calories, you are consuming information. And when you shit, you are not just excreting waste, you are excreting entropy. This is why it's so important to eat a variety of foods, to cultivate a diverse ecosystem in your gut. The health of your gut determines the clarity of your mind. This is why people who only eat chicken nuggets and Maccas are so fucking stupid. Anyway, I'm now going to take this concept to its logical conclusion: I'm going to eat my own shit. Wish me luck!
Have you tried feeding off entropy?https://t.co/tfXQC1lwtt
Have you wondered what problem the shitting duck automaton is meant to solve? Or why it was faked?https://t.co/MV6j0MJRyS https://t.co/vKjdjCFMru https://t.co/wSqRBfXXD6
Someone made an actual working mechanical duck shitter. Here's the part that actually shits.https://t.co/9dryUuqlia
Stocks and flows baby."Cloaca" by Wim Delvoyehttps://t.co/IGf8WYO6RC
"The World's Shittiest Piece of Art"https://t.co/BB7VdLjGJp