# Why isn’t grass harvested for human consumption?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isn-t-grass-harvested-for-human-consumption/810294 "2018-03-09T18:31:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isn-t-grass-harvested-for-human-consumption/810294/21 "2018-03-10T00:19:44Z")

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I had never heard of [grass jelly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_jelly), but I see that it [isn’t made from grass](https://www.google.com/search?q=Platostoma+palustre&client=firefox-b-1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5rIjAveDZAhVOG6wKHWCxCi8Q_AUICigB&biw=1056&bih=509).

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isn-t-grass-harvested-for-human-consumption/810294/22 "2018-03-10T00:38:46Z")

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> [@DrCube](#):
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> It should also be pointed out that large herbivores like cattle pretty much spend their entire waking life eating or chewing cud. I personally like having free time.

even worse is the giant panda. here’s a carnivore which eats almost nothing but bamboo shoots. they spend so much time lazing around eating 30 lbs of food a day (and shitting ~40 times a day) they don’t even have the energy to bother with that whole reproduction thing.

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**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isn-t-grass-harvested-for-human-consumption/810294/23 "2018-03-10T03:06:37Z")

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Half of a cow’s protine needs are met by the cow digesting it’s own gut microorganisms, like an internal ranch where it’s raising creatures for slaughter.

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