U.S. Potential of Sustainable Backyard Distributed Animal and Plant Protein Production during and after Pandemics

To safeguard against meat supply shortages during pandemics or other catastrophes, this study analyzed the potential to provide average household’s entire protein consumption using either soybean production distributed at household level in U.S. with: (1) pasture-fed rabbits, (2) pellet and hay-fed (3) pellet-fed chickens. Only backyard resources, cultivation can 80–160% of 0–50% a needs be provided by rabbits only yard grass as feed. If external supplementation feed is available, raising 52 chickens while also harvesting concomitant eggs alternately 107 grain-fed meet 100% an requirements. These results show that resilience future challenges associated with growing demands incrementally addressed through production. Backyard chicken meat, eggs, rabbit reduces environmental costs due savings production, transportation, refrigeration products even more so soybeans. Generally, was found economically competitive centralized if labor were ignored.