Meat:
The average American eats .34 kg of dead meat a day (chartsbin.com) which is only three quarters of the animal according to McKay. McKay says the for ever 65kg of mass of an animal, it uses 3kWh a day. Therefore, using an equation McKay has set up 4/3*122.8kg* 3kWh/65kg= 11.5kWh/day per person
Fertilizer:
Iasri.res.in states the use of fertilizer per person is twice per capita of the UK. So according to McKay the energy use of fertilizer per person each day is 4kWh and additional 1kWh for the equipment.
Pets:
The humane society reports 86.4 million cats exist in the USA as pets, along with 78.8 million dog and a whopping 9.5 million horses! (horsetalk.com) McKay states that the average cat uses 2kWh/day, dogs 9kWh/day, and horse 17kWh/day. The total of these animals amount to over 3.33kWh/day per person! We sure do love our pets, and pay for them too. Think of all the energy we could save if we recycled their bodies by eating them.
Eggs:
Humans consume the unborn chickens in a delicious manner by eating over 75 BILLION eggs a year states the people from incredibleegg.org. Our friend McKay informs us that each egg is actually .5kWh of energy loss. Using this information we can calculate that we eat 37.95E9kWh in a year of eggs. So weather scrambled, poached, or fried we consume .33kWh/day of eggs for every person in the USA.
Milk:
The USA on average sucks on those utters just as much as our friends from across the pond, consuming 1.5kWh/day per capita.
Plants:
Our buddy McKay finds the average of amount vegetable consumption should be universal with 3kWh/day.
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