This was interesting, too: this blogger took agricultural data and calculated the number of calories produced in the U.S. His conclusion: we produce nearly 160,000 calories per person, per day - about 80 times what the average (and when I say average, I mean non-Burri) person needs.
Blogger calls himself "The Dead Hand - A shameless act of capitalism by Corey A. Mathers." I found him through Instapundit, I think.
Can anybody vouch for/dispute his numbers or methodology?
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That's only three Big Mac's a day, big deal!
Mistakes were made. Errors were committed. The post has been corrected...a bug in my calculations led me to overstate the caloric production significantly. A revised total is available at
http://thedeadhand.com/blogs/cam/archive/2004/09/30/756.aspx
As it turns out, we grow about ten-twenty times what is 'necessary', not eighty times.
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