In a Recent Newspaper Article Promoting the Eating of Seaweed

question 19

Multiple Choice

In a recent newspaper article promoting the eating of seaweed and seaweed products,the argument was made that doing so was a more efficient use of energy than eating animals.Why would eating seaweed be more energy efficient than eating an animal?

• A)The energy found in animal matter represents a fraction of the energy found in the plant matter eaten by the animal.It would be better to just eat the plant and skip a step.
• B)The conversion of plant matter to animal matter produces less waste than converting animal material to animal material.
• C)Plant matter contains more energy per unit volume than does animal matter.
• D)Plant matter contains more energy per unit weight than does animal matter.

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