Originally Posted by marcm
If Wageslaveonbike had posted a thread titled "Industrial agriculture and meat wastes gas", I think the only possible criticism might be "off topic", though arguably it would be related to goals of many car-free forum members. But blurring the distinction between what you eat and how you get around, I don't get that, and I think that's what many posters here are objecting to, explicitly or not.
+1. Exactly.
If a person driving a 3000 lb car can be more efficient than a cyclist -- no matter what he eats -- then cycling must the most inefficent form of locomotion known to man.
I was about to say that most cyclists carry veggie foods anyways (powerbars, granola bars, etc) when it occurred to me -- does anyone carry pemmican or jerky?