Upvoted for ninja Banepost . <| sep |> Ugh agreed . They were the best on 95 . 7 . <| sep |> It ' s only just begun . <| sep |> That ' s exactly what mine do , too . <| sep |> Am dude , can touch toes with hands . <| sep |> How come ? Seems like it ' d be much more harmful to himself if he just completely ignores it <| sep |> Soy beans are grown to be fed to cattle . It is more energetically efficient to just eat the soy instead of transporting it , feeding it to cattle , the cows burning off a significant portion of the energy supplied by the soy through body heat and motion , and then you finally consuming a small portion of the original energy remaining as chemical energy in the cow ' s carcass . TLDR You lose energy during the cow ' s life because most of the energy from the food they eat is actually used for basic body functionsbody heatmotion . This is the concept of trophic levels , and actually applies to other resources used , most relevantly land . is a good graphic to illustrate . See how at the bottom of the food chain , you start out with 100 % of the energy , then with each level of the food chain , the energy is reduced by a factor of 10 . This principle is the reason why in nature , there are less predators than prey . The concept is the same with land in a scenario where you are farming the food . So , eating cows actually increases the amount of rainforest acreage which needs to be cleared to farm soybeans . There is also tons of more information available about this online .