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Originally Posted by Aleksander Krstic  Hi,
I have a question about Steve's blogging and twittering about how being a veg/vegan saves water and pollutants?
How is that possible? |
Meat production is a drain on water supplies too. Again, beef scores worst. According to Waterwise, the not-for-profit group focused on decreasing water consumption in the UK, it takes 17 times as much water to produce a kilogram of beef as it does to grow a kilogram of maize.
Put another way, 13 litres are needed to grow one tomato, 200 litres go into a 200ml glass of milk and it takes 2,400 litres of water to produce a 150g hamburger.
These are examples of 'water footprints' - the amount of fresh, and increasingly scarce, water (not including rain) it takes to produce food. (Extracted from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/meatethics.shtml)
The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops. (Extracted from:
Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns)