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It is more beneficial to eat lower on the food chain, for a few reasons.
1. Our food has not traveled from all over in order to get to our plate, meaning less exhaust fumes, less chemicals in our bodies.
2. The food lower on the food chain has been grown locally, and fully organic, without any additives or chemicals. The food you are eating has come straight from the farm.
There are a few other reasons, if you are still interested read the Omnivores Dilemma. Very good book, the whole book answers your question.
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Is more food avilable at the top or the bottom of a food chain?
There's more at the top of the food chain because there's more animals and food lower down.
Explain the reason that eating lower on a food chain provides more food energy that eating higher on the food chain?
Biomass refers to the food available for the next trophic level in a food chain. There is a higher biomass on the lower levels of the food chain, hence eating on those levels would provide more food energy.
What chain reaction did the agriculture revolution create in England?
More food, more people, lower cost, more goods
Why are there more rabbits than coyotes?
Generally the lower in a food chain an organism is the more abundant it is.
How could eating lower on the food chain make it possible to increase the worlds food supply?
Foods that are lower on the food chain are more abundant than those higher up. If people ate mostly vegetables there would be a lot more animals to eat in the world.
What chain reaction did agricultural revolution create in England?
More food, more people, lower cost, more goods
Does the top of the food chain have the same amount as the bottom?
Typically, the food chain is like a pyramid more than a chain. The lower on the food chain an organism is, the more of them that there are, because the lower organisms are usually smaller so it takes more of them to feed the larger ones at the top. ie sardines eat plankton, tuna eat sardines, and sharks eat the tuna.....each one is bigger than the other so there are more plankton than tuna, and more tuna than sharks.
How are a food pyramid and a food chain different?
A food chain is more relative. A food pyramid is more empirical. The food pyramid is more useful in determining food groups and needs.
What is a difference between a food chain and a food web?
the difference is that a food chain is smaller then a food web because a food web is more animals then a food chain
What information can you get from a food web the you cannot get from a food chain?
its just a more complicated form of a food chain
Why are pesticides harmful to birds at or near the top of the food chain?
b/c animals in which the birds are eating are being affected by the pesticides which kills them. If the animals at the lower part of the food chain start to grow extinct then there will be no more food for the animals at the top of the food chains which means they will more than likely die off or become extinct
Which organism belong to more than one food chain?
Plants and insects belong to more than one food chain
