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please help me make sense of this- biology

"It costs a farmer more to produce crops than to produce an animal. This is due to the large amount of energy needed to produce an animal, even a herbivore, compared to the energy that can be transferred from eating an animal because of the inefficiency of energy transfer and additional trophic levels which increase energy losses."

Also, why is meat relatively rare in populated countries?
Hi not your fault for struggling this Q is very confusingly phrased. I think it is referring to the inefficiency [efficiency] of photosynthesis which is the method of feeding used by producers [plants] whereas once carbon fixation has taken place to produce glucose [and from that fats and proteins], then the transfer into herbivores [the next step in the food chain] as well as the ingestion of these herbivores by carnivores are more efficient processes [therefore cost less].

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