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30-70% of their food - depending on the region and local industry - is distillers grains [1]. That’s the waste from ethanol production, including biofuels and alcohol.

Of that last 14% of human edible food, the vast majority is used at the end to fatten up the animals for slaughter.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains




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