Refers to the energy metabolism rate of the body under conscious and extreme quiet conditions without the effects of mental stress, muscle activity, food and environmental temperature. That is, the energy consumption per square meter of body surface area per hour when the human body is in the ...
In these factory-farmed beef systems, for example, we’ll feed 100 calories of plant matter and only get 3 calories out. That’s because that is a living and breathing animal that has a high metabolic rate. It is breathing out carbon dioxide like us. It’s burning energy to be alive....