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Cows are higher on the food chain, than potatoes. You can grow potatoes and then eat them, or you can grow vegetation of some kind (such as grass - but cows will also eat potatoes) and feed it to cows, who will then grow, and eventually be ready to be slaughtered and eaten. The usual estimate I have seen is that it takes ten pounds of vegetation eaten by a herbivore such as a cow, to make one pound of edible meat. So you can either have ten pounds of potatoes, or, if you feed them to your cow, one pound of meat. Hence, per pound the meat is more expensive. And that is aside from all the additional work that goes into caring for cows while they are alive, and butchering them when they are dead. Much more labor is involved.

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