Pound for pound, it cannot be denied meat provides more nutrition than the same amount of plants.
So if you had 2750lbs of plant food for yourself, vs just the 750 lbs of meat -- which has more nutrients?
(I do not know the answer myself, but I can see where it could be argued that meat is not more nutritious, pound for pound)
But we also feed them things like beet pulp pellets and molasses - both of which are by products of sugar production. Unless we are going to stop eating sugar what else would you do with this waste?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...