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Python farming as a flexible and efficient form of agricultural food security

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Re: Python farming as a flexible and efficient form of agricultural food security

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there is no version of reality where farming a carnivore that requires animal proteins for growth is magically going to be more economically efficient than non-carnivores.

It is basically a way to recover waste. The article mentions that:

> The most common feed inputs were wild-caught rodents and waste protein from agri-food supply chains (e.g., pork, chicken, fish). Many of the larger python farms make sausages from processed waste protein.

Re: Python farming as a flexible and efficient form of agricultural food security

#7
post #6

there is no version of reality where farming a carnivore that requires animal proteins for growth is magically going to be more economically efficient than non-carnivores.

It is basically a way to recover waste. The article mentions that: > The most common feed inputs were wild-caught rodents and waste protein from agri-food supply chains (e.g., pork, chicken, fish). Many of the larger python farms make sausages from processed waste protein.

So it gives you a few extra percent when you're already 90+% food-secure?