Why Is It More Energetically Efficient to Be a Vegetarian

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Multiple Choice

Why is it more energetically efficient to be a vegetarian than to eat meat?

• A) Plants contain more energy than meat since they are at the lowest trophic level.
• B) A person burns less energy digesting plants than digesting meat.
• C) It takes less effort to gather plants to eat than to prepare and cook meat.
• D) No energy is lost to another animal's metabolism when a person eats plants.
• E) It is easier to extract energy from plants than from animal sources.

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