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To produce a kilo of beef, for example, takes an average of seven kilos of feedgrain.
A kilo of beef cost euro15 in Paris, euro21 in Amsterdam and euro9.90 in Madrid.
"I will buy one kilo of beef and half a kilo of sugar".
But it takes as much as 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilo of beef.
This added to demand for cereals (a kilo of poultry requires about two kilos of grain, a kilo of beef much more).
Producing a kilogram of grain takes 1,500 litres of water; a kilo of beef takes 15,000 litres.Domestic animals also belch and fart amazing quantities of greenhouse gases and when jungle is cut down for pasture, carbon emissions rise.
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It involves wrapping a kilo or so of beef with herbs and garlic in salt and a wet tea towel and chucking it on to a fire.
The fact that hearts are cheap – Tesco charges £3.50 a kilo for beef hearts, Waitrose less than £6 a kilo for lamb hearts – has not prevented them from turning up on high-class menus in London: at Clerkenwell restaurant St John, but also at Nobu and at Wild Honey and Arbutus, where chef-owner Anthony Demetre just can't get enough of the dish he grew up with.
During high season, the price of grasshoppers is $8 a kilo -- double the cost of beef.
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