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Eating an animal is always going to be less efficient, because the animal has to eat food to live an most of that food energy will be used up day-to-day rather than staying in its meat.
Also, eating an animal requires that animal to be dead just for your pleasure. No way to get around that either - it will always be more cruel to eat meat than not.
I did read the article and it's good that extra regulation could be used to make the packaging more truthful, but you can't get away from these two claims. (also I happen to know someone who works in a meat packaging plant, and yeah... you can put whatever claims you want on the package and still corners get cut and animals are left suffering because money is the real objective for all companies under capitalism, not animal welfare)
The bigger the animal the less efficient too, since there's more time needed for them to grow and they're using more energy the entire time they're growing since they're bigger.